pretjerati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From pre- +‎ tjerati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prětjerati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧tje‧ra‧ti

Verb

prètjerati pf (Cyrillic spelling прѐтјерати)

  1. (transitive) to drive across
  2. (intransitive) to go too far
  3. (intransitive) to exaggerate

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretjerati
infinitive pretjerati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb prètjerāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pretjeram pretjeraš pretjera pretjeramo pretjerate pretjeraju
future future I pretjerat ću1
pretjeraću
pretjerat ćeš1
pretjeraćeš
pretjerat će1
pretjeraće
pretjerat ćemo1
pretjeraćemo
pretjerat ćete1
pretjeraćete
pretjerat ćē1
pretjeraće
future II bȕdēm pretjerao2 bȕdēš pretjerao2 bȕdē pretjerao2 bȕdēmo pretjerali2 bȕdēte pretjerali2 bȕdū pretjerali2
past perfect pretjerao sam2 pretjerao si2 pretjerao je2 pretjerali smo2 pretjerali ste2 pretjerali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pretjerao2 bȉo si pretjerao2 bȉo je pretjerao2 bíli smo pretjerali2 bíli ste pretjerali2 bíli su pretjerali2
aorist pretjerah pretjera pretjera pretjerasmo pretjeraste pretjeraše
conditional conditional I pretjerao bih2 pretjerao bi2 pretjerao bi2 pretjerali bismo2 pretjerali biste2 pretjerali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pretjerao2 bȉo bi pretjerao2 bȉo bi pretjerao2 bíli bismo pretjerali2 bíli biste pretjerali2 bíli bi pretjerali2
imperative pretjeraj pretjerajmo pretjerajte
active past participle pretjerao m / pretjerala f / pretjeralo n pretjerali m / pretjerale f / pretjerala 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.