pritvarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pritʋǎːrati/
• Hyphenation: pri‧tva‧ra‧ti

Verb

pritvárati impf (Cyrillic spelling притва́рати)

1. (transitive) to hold in custody, to arrest temporarily

Conjugation

Conjugation of pritvarati

Infinitive: pritvarati		Present verbal adverb: pritvárajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pritvárānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pritvaram	pritvaraš	pritvara	pritvaramo	pritvarate	pritvaraju
Future	Future I	pritvarat ću1 pritvaraću	pritvarat ćeš1 pritvaraćeš	pritvarat će1 pritvaraće	pritvarat ćemo1 pritvaraćemo	pritvarat ćete1 pritvaraćete	pritvarat će1 pritvaraće
	Future II	bȕdēm pritvarao2	bȕdēš pritvarao2	bȕdē pritvarao2	bȕdēmo pritvarali2	bȕdēte pritvarali2	bȕdū pritvarali2
Past	Perfect	pritvarao sam2	pritvarao si2	pritvarao je2	pritvarali smo2	pritvarali ste2	pritvarali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pritvarao2	bȉo si pritvarao2	bȉo je pritvarao2	bíli smo pritvarali2	bíli ste pritvarali2	bíli su pritvarali2
	Imperfect	pritvarah	pritvaraše	pritvaraše	pritvarasmo	pritvaraste	pritvarahu
Conditional I		pritvarao bih2	pritvarao bi2	pritvarao bi2	pritvarali bismo2	pritvarali biste2	pritvarali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pritvarao2	bȉo bi pritvarao2	bȉo bi pritvarao2	bíli bismo pritvarali2	bíli biste pritvarali2	bíli bi pritvarali2
Imperative		—	pritvaraj	—	pritvarajmo	pritvarajte	—
Active past participle		pritvarao m / pritvarala f / pritvaralo n			pritvarali m / pritvarale f / pritvarala n
Passive past participle		pritvaran m / pritvarana f / pritvarano n			pritvarani m / pritvarane f / pritvarana 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

• pritvòriti pf

Further reading

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