potrefiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

potreviti

Etymology

Borrowed from German treffen. CompareCzech potrefit, Kashubian pòtrafic, Carpathian Rusyn потрафити (potrafyty), Macedonian потрефи (potrefi), Polish potrafić, Silesian potrefić, and Slovak potrafiť.

Verb

pòtrefiti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀трефити)

(colloquial) to hit (a target)
(colloquial) to guess correctly

Conjugation

Conjugation of *potrefiti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		potrefiti
present verbal adverb		potrefivši
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		potrefim	potrefiš	potrefi	potrefimo	potrefite	potrefe
future	future I	potrefit ću¹ potrefiću	potrefit ćeš¹ potrefićeš	potrefit će¹ potrefiće	potrefit ćemo¹ potrefićemo	potrefit ćete¹ potrefićete	potrefit ćē¹ potrefiće
future	future II	bȕdēm potrefio²	bȕdēš potrefio²	bȕdē potrefio²	bȕdēmo potrefili²	bȕdēte potrefili²	bȕdū potrefili²
past	perfect	potrefio sam²	potrefio si²	potrefio je²	potrefili smo²	potrefili ste²	potrefili su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam potrefio²	bȉo si potrefio²	bȉo je potrefio²	bíli smo potrefili²	bíli ste potrefili²	bíli su potrefili²
	imperfect	potrefih	potrefi	potrefi	potrefismo	potrefiste	potrefiše
conditional	conditional I	potrefio bih²	potrefio bi²	potrefio bi²	potrefili bismo²	potrefili biste²	potrefili bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih potrefio²	bȉo bi potrefio²	bȉo bi potrefio²	bíli bismo potrefili²	bíli biste potrefili²	bíli bi potrefili²
imperative		—	potrefi	—	potrefimo	potrefite	—
active past participle		potrefio m / potrefila f / potrefilo n			potrefili m / potrefile f / potrefila 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

strefiti, pogoditi