pretiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pertiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prěːtiti/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧ti‧ti

Verb

prétiti impf (Cyrillic spelling пре́тити)

  1. (intransitive) to threaten, menace

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretiti
infinitive pretiti
present verbal adverb prétēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun préćēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pretim pretiš preti pretimo pretite prete
future future I pretit ću1
pretiću
pretit ćeš1
pretićeš
pretit će1
pretiće
pretit ćemo1
pretićemo
pretit ćete1
pretićete
pretit ćē1
pretiće
future II bȕdēm pretio2 bȕdēš pretio2 bȕdē pretio2 bȕdēmo pretili2 bȕdēte pretili2 bȕdū pretili2
past perfect pretio sam2 pretio si2 pretio je2 pretili smo2 pretili ste2 pretili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pretio2 bȉo si pretio2 bȉo je pretio2 bíli smo pretili2 bíli ste pretili2 bíli su pretili2
imperfect prećah prećaše prećaše prećasmo prećaste prećahu
conditional conditional I pretio bih2 pretio bi2 pretio bi2 pretili bismo2 pretili biste2 pretili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pretio2 bȉo bi pretio2 bȉo bi pretio2 bíli bismo pretili2 bíli biste pretili2 bíli bi pretili2
imperative preti pretimo pretite
active past participle pretio m / pretila f / pretilo n pretili m / pretile f / pretila 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

  • poprétiti
  • priprétiti
  • zaprétiti