pretjerivati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• preterívati (Ekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pretjerǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧tje‧ri‧va‧ti

Verb

pretjerívati impf (Cyrillic spelling претјери́вати)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretjerivati

Infinitive: pretjerivati		Present verbal adverb: pretjèrujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pretjerívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pretjerujem	pretjeruješ	pretjeruje	pretjerujemo	pretjerujete	pretjeruju
Future	Future I	pretjerivat ću1 pretjerivaću	pretjerivat ćeš1 pretjerivaćeš	pretjerivat će1 pretjerivaće	pretjerivat ćemo1 pretjerivaćemo	pretjerivat ćete1 pretjerivaćete	pretjerivat će1 pretjerivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm pretjerivao2	bȕdēš pretjerivao2	bȕdē pretjerivao2	bȕdēmo pretjerivali2	bȕdēte pretjerivali2	bȕdū pretjerivali2
Past	Perfect	pretjerivao sam2	pretjerivao si2	pretjerivao je2	pretjerivali smo2	pretjerivali ste2	pretjerivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pretjerivao2	bȉo si pretjerivao2	bȉo je pretjerivao2	bíli smo pretjerivali2	bíli ste pretjerivali2	bíli su pretjerivali2
	Imperfect	pretjerivah	pretjerivaše	pretjerivaše	pretjerivasmo	pretjerivaste	pretjerivahu
Conditional I		pretjerivao bih2	pretjerivao bi2	pretjerivao bi2	pretjerivali bismo2	pretjerivali biste2	pretjerivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pretjerivao2	bȉo bi pretjerivao2	bȉo bi pretjerivao2	bíli bismo pretjerivali2	bíli biste pretjerivali2	bíli bi pretjerivali2
Imperative		—	pretjeruj	—	pretjerujmo	pretjerujte	—
Active past participle		pretjerivao m / pretjerivala f / pretjerivalo n			pretjerivali m / pretjerivale f / pretjerivala 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

• prètjerati pf