pretiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• prijétiti (Ijekavian)

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
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
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 će1 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 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