prelomiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ lomiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prelǒmiti/
• Hyphenation: pre‧lo‧mi‧ti

Verb

prelòmiti pf (Cyrillic spelling прело̀мити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to break (in two pieces)
2. (transitive) to finally make a hard decision
3. (transitive, printing) to set (page, type)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prelomiti

Infinitive: prelomiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: prelòmīvši		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		prelomim	prelomiš	prelomi	prelomimo	prelomite	prelome
Future	Future I	prelomit ću1 prelomiću	prelomit ćeš1 prelomićeš	prelomit će1 prelomiće	prelomit ćemo1 prelomićemo	prelomit ćete1 prelomićete	prelomit će1 prelomiće
	Future II	bȕdēm prelomio2	bȕdēš prelomio2	bȕdē prelomio2	bȕdēmo prelomili2	bȕdēte prelomili2	bȕdū prelomili2
Past	Perfect	prelomio sam2	prelomio si2	prelomio je2	prelomili smo2	prelomili ste2	prelomili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam prelomio2	bȉo si prelomio2	bȉo je prelomio2	bíli smo prelomili2	bíli ste prelomili2	bíli su prelomili2
	Aorist	prelomih	prelomi	prelomi	prelomismo	prelomiste	prelomiše
Conditional I		prelomio bih2	prelomio bi2	prelomio bi2	prelomili bismo2	prelomili biste2	prelomili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih prelomio2	bȉo bi prelomio2	bȉo bi prelomio2	bíli bismo prelomili2	bíli biste prelomili2	bíli bi prelomili2
Imperative		—	prelomi	—	prelomimo	prelomite	—
Active past participle		prelomio m / prelomila f / prelomilo n			prelomili m / prelomile f / prelomila n
Passive past participle		prelomljen m / prelomljena f / prelomljeno n			prelomljeni m / prelomljene f / prelomljena 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

• prelámati impf

Further reading

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