prekrivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prekrǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧kri‧va‧ti

Verb

prekrívati impf (Cyrillic spelling прекри́вати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to completely cover

Conjugation

Conjugation of prekrivati
infinitive prekrivati
present verbal adverb prekrívajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun prekrívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present prekrivam prekrivaš prekriva prekrivamo prekrivate prekrivaju
future future I prekrivat ću1
prekrivaću
prekrivat ćeš1
prekrivaćeš
prekrivat će1
prekrivaće
prekrivat ćemo1
prekrivaćemo
prekrivat ćete1
prekrivaćete
prekrivat ćē1
prekrivaće
future II bȕdēm prekrivao2 bȕdēš prekrivao2 bȕdē prekrivao2 bȕdēmo prekrivali2 bȕdēte prekrivali2 bȕdū prekrivali2
past perfect prekrivao sam2 prekrivao si2 prekrivao je2 prekrivali smo2 prekrivali ste2 prekrivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam prekrivao2 bȉo si prekrivao2 bȉo je prekrivao2 bíli smo prekrivali2 bíli ste prekrivali2 bíli su prekrivali2
imperfect prekrivah prekrivaše prekrivaše prekrivasmo prekrivaste prekrivahu
conditional conditional I prekrivao bih2 prekrivao bi2 prekrivao bi2 prekrivali bismo2 prekrivali biste2 prekrivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih prekrivao2 bȉo bi prekrivao2 bȉo bi prekrivao2 bíli bismo prekrivali2 bíli biste prekrivali2 bíli bi prekrivali2
imperative prekrivaj prekrivajmo prekrivajte
active past participle prekrivao m / prekrivala f / prekrivalo n prekrivali m / prekrivale f / prekrivala n
passive past participle prekrivan m / prekrivana f / prekrivano n prekrivani m / prekrivane f / prekrivana 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

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