zatvarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zatʋǎːrati/
• Hyphenation: za‧tva‧ra‧ti

Verb

zatvárati impf (Cyrillic spelling затва́рати)

1. (transitive) to close (down), shut (down)
2. (transitive) to imprison, detain
3. (transitive, reflexive) to lock up (in a house, box etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zatvarati

Infinitive: zatvarati		Present verbal adverb: zatvárajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zatvárānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zàtvārām	zatvaraš	zatvara	zatvaramo	zatvarate	zatvaraju
Future	Future I	zatvarat ću1 zatvaraću	zatvarat ćeš1 zatvaraćeš	zatvarat će1 zatvaraće	zatvarat ćemo1 zatvaraćemo	zatvarat ćete1 zatvaraćete	zatvarat će1 zatvaraće
	Future II	bȕdēm zatvarao2	bȕdēš zatvarao2	bȕdē zatvarao2	bȕdēmo zatvarali2	bȕdēte zatvarali2	bȕdū zatvarali2
Past	Perfect	zatvarao sam2	zatvarao si2	zatvarao je2	zatvarali smo2	zatvarali ste2	zatvarali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zatvarao2	bȉo si zatvarao2	bȉo je zatvarao2	bíli smo zatvarali2	bíli ste zatvarali2	bíli su zatvarali2
	Imperfect	zatvarah	zatvaraše	zatvaraše	zatvarasmo	zatvaraste	zatvarahu
Conditional I		zatvarao bih2	zatvarao bi2	zatvarao bi2	zatvarali bismo2	zatvarali biste2	zatvarali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zatvarao2	bȉo bi zatvarao2	bȉo bi zatvarao2	bíli bismo zatvarali2	bíli biste zatvarali2	bíli bi zatvarali2
Imperative		—	zatvaraj	—	zatvarajmo	zatvarajte	—
Active past participle		zatvarao m / zatvarala f / zatvaralo n			zatvarali m / zatvarale f / zatvarala n
Passive past participle		zatvaran m / zatvarana f / zatvarano n			zatvarani m / zatvarane f / zatvarana 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

• zatvòriti pf
• otvòriti pf
• otvárati impf
• patentni zatvarač pf

Further reading

• “zatvarati” in Hrvatski jezični portal