praviti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prâʋiti/
• Hyphenation: pra‧vi‧ti

Verb

prȁviti impf (Cyrillic spelling пра̏вити)

1. (transitive) to make, create
2. (transitive) to do, cause, deal (damage, trouble, inconvenience etc.)
3. (reflexive, colloquial) to fake, pretend

   (with adjective) Neki ljudi se prave pametni. ― Some people pretend to be smart.

   (with da + subordinate clause) Pravit ću se da to nisam vidio. ― I'll pretend that I didn't see that.

Conjugation

Conjugation of praviti

Infinitive: praviti		Present verbal adverb: prȁvēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prȁvljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pravim	praviš	pravi	pravimo	pravite	prave
Future	Future I	pravit ću1 praviću	pravit ćeš1 pravićeš	pravit će1 praviće	pravit ćemo1 pravićemo	pravit ćete1 pravićete	pravit će1 praviće
	Future II	bȕdēm pravio2	bȕdēš pravio2	bȕdē pravio2	bȕdēmo pravili2	bȕdēte pravili2	bȕdū pravili2
Past	Perfect	pravio sam2	pravio si2	pravio je2	pravili smo2	pravili ste2	pravili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pravio2	bȉo si pravio2	bȉo je pravio2	bíli smo pravili2	bíli ste pravili2	bíli su pravili2
	Imperfect	pravljah	pravljaše	pravljaše	pravljasmo	pravljaste	pravljahu
Conditional I		pravio bih2	pravio bi2	pravio bi2	pravili bismo2	pravili biste2	pravili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pravio2	bȉo bi pravio2	bȉo bi pravio2	bíli bismo pravili2	bíli biste pravili2	bíli bi pravili2
Imperative		—	pravi	—	pravimo	pravite	—
Active past participle		pravio m / pravila f / pravilo n			pravili m / pravile f / pravila n
Passive past participle		pravljen m / pravljena f / pravljeno n			pravljeni m / pravljene f / pravljena 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

• nàpraviti
• òtpraviti
• pòpraviti
• prèpraviti
• prìpraviti
• sprȁviti