petljati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pětʎati/
• Hyphenation: pet‧lja‧ti

Verb

pètljati impf (Cyrillic spelling пѐтљати)

1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to decide
2. to make loops, to tangle
   1. to plot
   2. to talk in a roundabout way, to circle around, to lie
   3. to stammer, stutter
   4. to do clumsily, to fumble
3. to get involved, get involved (in), become embroiled in
4. (reflexive) to whirl, spin
   1. to mess around, fiddle with, fumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of petljati

Infinitive: petljati		Present verbal adverb: pètljajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pètljučānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		petljam	petljaš	petlja	petljamo	petljate	petljaju
Future	Future I	petljat ću1 petljaću	petljat ćeš1 petljaćeš	petljat će1 petljaće	petljat ćemo1 petljaćemo	petljat ćete1 petljaćete	petljat će1 petljaće
	Future II	bȕdēm petljao2	bȕdēš petljao2	bȕdē petljao2	bȕdēmo petljali2	bȕdēte petljali2	bȕdū petljali2
Past	Perfect	petljao sam2	petljao si2	petljao je2	petljali smo2	petljali ste2	petljali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam petljao2	bȉo si petljao2	bȉo je petljao2	bíli smo petljali2	bíli ste petljali2	bíli su petljali2
	Imperfect	petljah	petljaše	petljaše	petljasmo	petljaste	petljahu
Conditional I		petljao bih2	petljao bi2	petljao bi2	petljali bismo2	petljali biste2	petljali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih petljao2	bȉo bi petljao2	bȉo bi petljao2	bíli bismo petljali2	bíli biste petljali2	bíli bi petljali2
Imperative		—	petljaj	—	petljajmo	petljajte	—
Active past participle		petljao m / petljala f / petljalo n			petljali m / petljale f / petljala 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

• raspetljati
• ispetljati
• zapetljati
• spetljati
• upetljati

Related terms

• petlja
• petljanija

References

• “petljati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024