potrefiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• potreviti

Etymology

Borrowed from German treffen. CompareCzech potrefit, Kashubian pòtrafic, Carpathian Rusyn потрафити (potrafyty), Macedonian потрефи (potrefi), Polish potrafić, Silesian potrefić, and Slovak potrafiť.

Verb

pòtrefiti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀трефити)

1. (colloquial) to hit (a target)
2. (colloquial) to guess correctly

Conjugation

Conjugation of potrefiti

Infinitive: potrefiti		Present verbal adverb: potrefivši		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		potrefim	potrefiš	potrefi	potrefimo	potrefite	potrefe
Future	Future I	potrefit ću1 potrefiću	potrefit ćeš1 potrefićeš	potrefit će1 potrefiće	potrefit ćemo1 potrefićemo	potrefit ćete1 potrefićete	potrefit će1 potrefiće
	Future II	bȕdēm potrefio2	bȕdēš potrefio2	bȕdē potrefio2	bȕdēmo potrefili2	bȕdēte potrefili2	bȕdū potrefili2
Past	Perfect	potrefio sam2	potrefio si2	potrefio je2	potrefili smo2	potrefili ste2	potrefili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam potrefio2	bȉo si potrefio2	bȉo je potrefio2	bíli smo potrefili2	bíli ste potrefili2	bíli su potrefili2
	Imperfect	potrefih	potrefi	potrefi	potrefismo	potrefiste	potrefiše
Conditional I		potrefio bih2	potrefio bi2	potrefio bi2	potrefili bismo2	potrefili biste2	potrefili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih potrefio2	bȉo bi potrefio2	bȉo bi potrefio2	bíli bismo potrefili2	bíli biste potrefili2	bíli bi potrefili2
Imperative		—	potrefi	—	potrefimo	potrefite	—
Active past participle		potrefio m / potrefila f / potrefilo n			potrefili m / potrefile f / potrefila 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

• strefiti, pogoditi