skraćivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skrat͡ɕǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: skra‧ći‧va‧ti

Verb

skraćívati impf (Cyrillic spelling скраћи́вати)

1. (transitive) to shorten, make shorter
2. (transitive) to abbreviate
3. (transitive) to reduce (a fraction)
4. (reflexive) to become shorter

Conjugation

Conjugation of skraćivati

Infinitive: skraćivati		Present verbal adverb: skràćujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: skraćívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		skraćujem	skraćuješ	skraćuje	skraćujemo	skraćujete	skraćuju
Future	Future I	skraćivat ću1 skraćivaću	skraćivat ćeš1 skraćivaćeš	skraćivat će1 skraćivaće	skraćivat ćemo1 skraćivaćemo	skraćivat ćete1 skraćivaćete	skraćivat će1 skraćivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm skraćivao2	bȕdēš skraćivao2	bȕdē skraćivao2	bȕdēmo skraćivali2	bȕdēte skraćivali2	bȕdū skraćivali2
Past	Perfect	skraćivao sam2	skraćivao si2	skraćivao je2	skraćivali smo2	skraćivali ste2	skraćivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam skraćivao2	bȉo si skraćivao2	bȉo je skraćivao2	bíli smo skraćivali2	bíli ste skraćivali2	bíli su skraćivali2
	Imperfect	skraćivah	skraćivaše	skraćivaše	skraćivasmo	skraćivaste	skraćivahu
Conditional I		skraćivao bih2	skraćivao bi2	skraćivao bi2	skraćivali bismo2	skraćivali biste2	skraćivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih skraćivao2	bȉo bi skraćivao2	bȉo bi skraćivao2	bíli bismo skraćivali2	bíli biste skraćivali2	bíli bi skraćivali2
Imperative		—	skraćuj	—	skraćujmo	skraćujte	—
Active past participle		skraćivao m / skraćivala f / skraćivalo n			skraćivali m / skraćivale f / skraćivala n
Passive past participle		skraćivan m / skraćivana f / skraćivano n			skraćivani m / skraćivane f / skraćivana 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

• skrátiti pf

Further reading

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