pokretati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ kretati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǒkretati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧kre‧ta‧ti

Verb

pòkretati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀кретати)

  1. (transitive) to initiate, start, set in motion

Conjugation

Conjugation of pokretati
infinitive pokretati
present verbal adverb pòkrećūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pòkretānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pokrećem pokrećeš pokreće pokrećemo pokrećete pokreću
future future I pokretat ću1
pokretaću
pokretat ćeš1
pokretaćeš
pokretat će1
pokretaće
pokretat ćemo1
pokretaćemo
pokretat ćete1
pokretaćete
pokretat ćē1
pokretaće
future II bȕdēm pokretao2 bȕdēš pokretao2 bȕdē pokretao2 bȕdēmo pokretali2 bȕdēte pokretali2 bȕdū pokretali2
past perfect pokretao sam2 pokretao si2 pokretao je2 pokretali smo2 pokretali ste2 pokretali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pokretao2 bȉo si pokretao2 bȉo je pokretao2 bíli smo pokretali2 bíli ste pokretali2 bíli su pokretali2
imperfect pokretah pokretaše pokretaše pokretasmo pokretaste pokretahu
conditional conditional I pokretao bih2 pokretao bi2 pokretao bi2 pokretali bismo2 pokretali biste2 pokretali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pokretao2 bȉo bi pokretao2 bȉo bi pokretao2 bíli bismo pokretali2 bíli biste pokretali2 bíli bi pokretali2
imperative pokreći pokrećimo pokrećite
active past participle pokretao m / pokretala f / pokretalo n pokretali m / pokretale f / pokretala n
passive past participle pokretan m / pokretana f / pokretano n pokretani m / pokretane f / pokretana 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.

Further reading

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