prekrivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prekrǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧kri‧va‧ti

Verb

prekrívati impf (Cyrillic spelling прекри́вати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to completely cover

Conjugation

Conjugation of prekrivati

Infinitive: prekrivati		Present verbal adverb: prekrívajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prekrívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		prekrivam	prekrivaš	prekriva	prekrivamo	prekrivate	prekrivaju
Future	Future I	prekrivat ću1 prekrivaću	prekrivat ćeš1 prekrivaćeš	prekrivat će1 prekrivaće	prekrivat ćemo1 prekrivaćemo	prekrivat ćete1 prekrivaćete	prekrivat će1 prekrivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm prekrivao2	bȕdēš prekrivao2	bȕdē prekrivao2	bȕdēmo prekrivali2	bȕdēte prekrivali2	bȕdū prekrivali2
Past	Perfect	prekrivao sam2	prekrivao si2	prekrivao je2	prekrivali smo2	prekrivali ste2	prekrivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam prekrivao2	bȉo si prekrivao2	bȉo je prekrivao2	bíli smo prekrivali2	bíli ste prekrivali2	bíli su prekrivali2
	Imperfect	prekrivah	prekrivaše	prekrivaše	prekrivasmo	prekrivaste	prekrivahu
Conditional I		prekrivao bih2	prekrivao bi2	prekrivao bi2	prekrivali bismo2	prekrivali biste2	prekrivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih prekrivao2	bȉo bi prekrivao2	bȉo bi prekrivao2	bíli bismo prekrivali2	bíli biste prekrivali2	bíli bi prekrivali2
Imperative		—	prekrivaj	—	prekrivajmo	prekrivajte	—
Active past participle		prekrivao m / prekrivala f / prekrivalo n			prekrivali m / prekrivale f / prekrivala n
Passive past participle		prekrivan m / prekrivana f / prekrivano n			prekrivani m / prekrivane f / prekrivana 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

• prèkriti pf

Further reading

• “prekrivati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024