preoravati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From preòrati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /preorǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧o‧ra‧va‧ti

Verb

preorávati impf (Cyrillic spelling преора́вати)

  1. imperfective form of preòrati

Conjugation

Conjugation of preoravati
infinitive preoravati
present verbal adverb preorávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun preorávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present preoravam preoravaš preorava preoravamo preoravate preoravaju
future future I preoravat ću1
preoravaću
preoravat ćeš1
preoravaćeš
preoravat će1
preoravaće
preoravat ćemo1
preoravaćemo
preoravat ćete1
preoravaćete
preoravat ćē1
preoravaće
future II bȕdēm preoravao2 bȕdēš preoravao2 bȕdē preoravao2 bȕdēmo preoravali2 bȕdēte preoravali2 bȕdū preoravali2
past perfect preoravao sam2 preoravao si2 preoravao je2 preoravali smo2 preoravali ste2 preoravali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam preoravao2 bȉo si preoravao2 bȉo je preoravao2 bíli smo preoravali2 bíli ste preoravali2 bíli su preoravali2
imperfect preoravah preoravaše preoravaše preoravasmo preoravaste preoravahu
conditional conditional I preoravao bih2 preoravao bi2 preoravao bi2 preoravali bismo2 preoravali biste2 preoravali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih preoravao2 bȉo bi preoravao2 bȉo bi preoravao2 bíli bismo preoravali2 bíli biste preoravali2 bíli bi preoravali2
imperative preoravaj preoravajmo preoravajte
active past participle preoravao m / preoravala f / preoravalo n preoravali m / preoravale f / preoravala n
passive past participle preoravan m / preoravana f / preoravano n preoravani m / preoravane f / preoravana 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

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