skratiti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skrǎːtiti/
• Hyphenation: skra‧ti‧ti

Verb

skrátiti pf (Cyrillic spelling скра́тити)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of skratiti

Infinitive: skratiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: skrátīvši		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		skratim	skratiš	skrati	skratimo	skratite	skrate
Future	Future I	skratit ću1 skratiću	skratit ćeš1 skratićeš	skratit će1 skratiće	skratit ćemo1 skratićemo	skratit ćete1 skratićete	skratit će1 skratiće
	Future II	bȕdēm skratio2	bȕdēš skratio2	bȕdē skratio2	bȕdēmo skratili2	bȕdēte skratili2	bȕdū skratili2
Past	Perfect	skratio sam2	skratio si2	skratio je2	skratili smo2	skratili ste2	skratili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam skratio2	bȉo si skratio2	bȉo je skratio2	bíli smo skratili2	bíli ste skratili2	bíli su skratili2
	Aorist	skratih	skrati	skrati	skratismo	skratiste	skratiše
Conditional I		skratio bih2	skratio bi2	skratio bi2	skratili bismo2	skratili biste2	skratili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih skratio2	bȉo bi skratio2	bȉo bi skratio2	bíli bismo skratili2	bíli biste skratili2	bíli bi skratili2
Imperative		—	skrati	—	skratimo	skratite	—
Active past participle		skratio m / skratila f / skratilo n			skratili m / skratile f / skratila n
Passive past participle		skraćen m / skraćena f / skraćeno n			skraćeni m / skraćene f / skraćena 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

• skraćívati impf

Further reading

• “skratiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025