skrenuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ krenuti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skrěːnuti/
• Hyphenation: skre‧nu‧ti

Verb

skrénuti pf (Cyrillic spelling скре́нути)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to turn, take another direction
2. (intransitive) to deviate, diverge from
3. (intransitive) to strike into another track
4. (intransitive) to shunt (train)
5. (intransitive) to digress (of a conversation)
6. (intransitive) to stray (from proper path)
7. (intransitive) to sheer (ship's direction)

Conjugation

Conjugation of skrenuti

Infinitive: skrenuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: skrénūvši		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		skrenem	skreneš	skrene	skrenemo	skrenete	skrenu
Future	Future I	skrenut ću1 skrenuću	skrenut ćeš1 skrenućeš	skrenut će1 skrenuće	skrenut ćemo1 skrenućemo	skrenut ćete1 skrenućete	skrenut će1 skrenuće
	Future II	bȕdēm skrenuo2	bȕdēš skrenuo2	bȕdē skrenuo2	bȕdēmo skrenuli2	bȕdēte skrenuli2	bȕdū skrenuli2
Past	Perfect	skrenuo sam2	skrenuo si2	skrenuo je2	skrenuli smo2	skrenuli ste2	skrenuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam skrenuo2	bȉo si skrenuo2	bȉo je skrenuo2	bíli smo skrenuli2	bíli ste skrenuli2	bíli su skrenuli2
	Aorist	skrenuh	skrenu	skrenu	skrenusmo	skrenuste	skrenuše
Conditional I		skrenuo bih2	skrenuo bi2	skrenuo bi2	skrenuli bismo2	skrenuli biste2	skrenuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih skrenuo2	bȉo bi skrenuo2	bȉo bi skrenuo2	bíli bismo skrenuli2	bíli biste skrenuli2	bíli bi skrenuli2
Imperative		—	skreni	—	skrenimo	skrenite	—
Active past participle		skrenuo m / skrenula f / skrenulo n			skrenuli m / skrenule f / skrenula n
Passive past participle		skrenut m / skrenuta f / skrenuto n			skrenuti m / skrenute f / skrenuta 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

• skrétati impf

Further reading

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