preletati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• prelijétati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prelěːtati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧le‧ta‧ti

Verb

prelétati impf (Cyrillic spelling преле́тати)

1. (transitive) to fly over/across
2. (transitive) to glance, skim over
3. (transitive, politics) to cross the floor from one party to another in parliament or council

Conjugation

Conjugation of preletati

Infinitive: preletati		Present verbal adverb: preléćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prelétānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		preletam	preletaš	preleta	preletamo	preletate	preletaju
Future	Future I	preletat ću1 preletaću	preletat ćeš1 preletaćeš	preletat će1 preletaće	preletat ćemo1 preletaćemo	preletat ćete1 preletaćete	preletat će1 preletaće
	Future II	bȕdēm preletao2	bȕdēš preletao2	bȕdē preletao2	bȕdēmo preletali2	bȕdēte preletali2	bȕdū preletali2
Past	Perfect	preletao sam2	preletao si2	preletao je2	preletali smo2	preletali ste2	preletali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam preletao2	bȉo si preletao2	bȉo je preletao2	bíli smo preletali2	bíli ste preletali2	bíli su preletali2
	Imperfect	preletah	preletaše	preletaše	preletasmo	preletaste	preletahu
Conditional I		preletao bih2	preletao bi2	preletao bi2	preletali bismo2	preletali biste2	preletali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih preletao2	bȉo bi preletao2	bȉo bi preletao2	bíli bismo preletali2	bíli biste preletali2	bíli bi preletali2
Imperative		—	preletaj	—	preletajmo	preletajte	—
Active past participle		preletao m / preletala f / preletalo n			preletali m / preletale f / preletala n
Passive past participle		preletan m / preletana f / preletano n			preletani m / preletane f / preletana 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

• prelèteti pf