kretati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krętati. Cognate with Polish krzątać.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krěːtati/
• Hyphenation: kre‧ta‧ti

Verb

krétati impf (Cyrillic spelling кре́тати)

1. (reflexive) to move
2. (reflexive) to range
3. (intransitive) to begin, start (movement or activity)

Conjugation

Conjugation of kretati

infinitive		kretati
present verbal adverb		kréćūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		krétānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		krećem	krećeš	kreće	krećemo	krećete	kreću
future	future I	kretat ću1 kretaću	kretat ćeš1 kretaćeš	kretat će1 kretaće	kretat ćemo1 kretaćemo	kretat ćete1 kretaćete	kretat ćē1 kretaće
	future II	bȕdēm kretao2	bȕdēš kretao2	bȕdē kretao2	bȕdēmo kretali2	bȕdēte kretali2	bȕdū kretali2
past	perfect	kretao sam2	kretao si2	kretao je2	kretali smo2	kretali ste2	kretali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam kretao2	bȉo si kretao2	bȉo je kretao2	bíli smo kretali2	bíli ste kretali2	bíli su kretali2
	imperfect	kretah	kretaše	kretaše	kretasmo	kretaste	kretahu
conditional	conditional I	kretao bih2	kretao bi2	kretao bi2	kretali bismo2	kretali biste2	kretali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih kretao2	bȉo bi kretao2	bȉo bi kretao2	bíli bismo kretali2	bíli biste kretali2	bíli bi kretali2
imperative		—	kreći	—	krećimo	krećite	—
active past participle		kretao m / kretala f / kretalo n			kretali m / kretale f / kretala 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.

Related terms

• krénuti pf

References

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