petljati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pětʎati/
  • Hyphenation: pet‧lja‧ti

Verb

pètljati impf (Cyrillic spelling пѐтљати)

  1. (ambitransitive, reflexive) to decide
  2. to make loops, to tangle
    1. to plot
    2. to talk in a roundabout way, to circle around, to lie
    3. to stammer, stutter
    4. to do clumsily, to fumble
  3. to get involved, get involved (in), become embroiled in
  4. (reflexive) to whirl, spin
    1. to mess around, fiddle with, fumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of petljati
infinitive petljati
present verbal adverb pètljajūći
past verbal adverb —
verbal noun pètljučānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present petljam petljaš petlja petljamo petljate petljaju
future future I petljat ću1
petljaću 		petljat ćeš1
petljaćeš 		petljat će1
petljaće 		petljat ćemo1
petljaćemo 		petljat ćete1
petljaćete 		petljat ćē1
petljaće
future II bȕdēm petljao2 bȕdēš petljao2 bȕdē petljao2 bȕdēmo petljali2 bȕdēte petljali2 bȕdū petljali2
past perfect petljao sam2 petljao si2 petljao je2 petljali smo2 petljali ste2 petljali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam petljao2 bȉo si petljao2 bȉo je petljao2 bíli smo petljali2 bíli ste petljali2 bíli su petljali2
imperfect petljah petljaše petljaše petljasmo petljaste petljahu
conditional conditional I petljao bih2 petljao bi2 petljao bi2 petljali bismo2 petljali biste2 petljali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih petljao2 bȉo bi petljao2 bȉo bi petljao2 bíli bismo petljali2 bíli biste petljali2 bíli bi petljali2
imperative — petljaj — petljajmo petljajte —
active past participle petljao m / petljala f / petljalo n petljali m / petljale f / petljala 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.

Derived terms

References

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