krotiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krotiti (Russian укроти́ть (ukrotítʹ), Polish ukrocić), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrot(H)- (Sanskrit श्रथ्नाति (śrathnāti), Old English hreddan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krǒtiti/
  • Hyphenation: kro‧ti‧ti

Verb

kròtiti impf (Cyrillic spelling кро̀тити)

  1. (transitive) to tame

Conjugation

Conjugation of krotiti
infinitive krotiti
present verbal adverb kròtēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun kròćēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present krotim krotiš kroti krotimo krotite krote
future future I krotit ću1
krotiću
krotit ćeš1
krotićeš
krotit će1
krotiće
krotit ćemo1
krotićemo
krotit ćete1
krotićete
krotit ćē1
krotiće
future II bȕdēm krotio2 bȕdēš krotio2 bȕdē krotio2 bȕdēmo krotili2 bȕdēte krotili2 bȕdū krotili2
past perfect krotio sam2 krotio si2 krotio je2 krotili smo2 krotili ste2 krotili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam krotio2 bȉo si krotio2 bȉo je krotio2 bíli smo krotili2 bíli ste krotili2 bíli su krotili2
imperfect kroćah kroćaše kroćaše kroćasmo kroćaste kroćahu
conditional conditional I krotio bih2 krotio bi2 krotio bi2 krotili bismo2 krotili biste2 krotili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih krotio2 bȉo bi krotio2 bȉo bi krotio2 bíli bismo krotili2 bíli biste krotili2 bíli bi krotili2
imperative kroti krotimo krotite
active past participle krotio m / krotila f / krotilo n krotili m / krotile f / krotila n
passive past participle kroćen m / kroćena f / kroćeno n kroćeni m / kroćene f / kroćena n

1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.
2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively.
3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.
4   Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.
  *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

References

  • krotiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025