preterati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• prètjerati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From pre- +‎ terati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prěterati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧te‧ra‧ti

Verb

prèterati pf (Cyrillic spelling прѐтерати)

1. (transitive) to drive across
2. (intransitive) to go too far
3. (intransitive) to exaggerate

Conjugation

Conjugation of preterati

Infinitive: preterati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: prèterāvši		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		preteram	preteraš	pretera	preteramo	preterate	preteraju
Future	Future I	preterat ću1 preteraću	preterat ćeš1 preteraćeš	preterat će1 preteraće	preterat ćemo1 preteraćemo	preterat ćete1 preteraćete	preterat će1 preteraće
	Future II	bȕdēm preterao2	bȕdēš preterao2	bȕdē preterao2	bȕdēmo preterali2	bȕdēte preterali2	bȕdū preterali2
Past	Perfect	preterao sam2	preterao si2	preterao je2	preterali smo2	preterali ste2	preterali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam preterao2	bȉo si preterao2	bȉo je preterao2	bíli smo preterali2	bíli ste preterali2	bíli su preterali2
	Aorist	preterah	pretera	pretera	preterasmo	preteraste	preteraše
Conditional I		preterao bih2	preterao bi2	preterao bi2	preterali bismo2	preterali biste2	preterali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih preterao2	bȉo bi preterao2	bȉo bi preterao2	bíli bismo preterali2	bíli biste preterali2	bíli bi preterali2
Imperative		—	preteraj	—	preterajmo	preterajte	—
Active past participle		preterao m / preterala f / preteralo n			preterali m / preterale f / preterala 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

• preterívati impf