pretvarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pretʋǎːrati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧tva‧ra‧ti

Verb

pretvárati impf (Cyrillic spelling претва́рати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to turn into, to transform, to change
2. (reflexive) to pretend, feign

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretvarati

Infinitive: pretvarati		Present verbal adverb: pretvárajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pretvárānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pretvaram	pretvaraš	pretvara	pretvaramo	pretvarate	pretvaraju
Future	Future I	pretvarat ću1 pretvaraću	pretvarat ćeš1 pretvaraćeš	pretvarat će1 pretvaraće	pretvarat ćemo1 pretvaraćemo	pretvarat ćete1 pretvaraćete	pretvarat će1 pretvaraće
	Future II	bȕdēm pretvarao2	bȕdēš pretvarao2	bȕdē pretvarao2	bȕdēmo pretvarali2	bȕdēte pretvarali2	bȕdū pretvarali2
Past	Perfect	pretvarao sam2	pretvarao si2	pretvarao je2	pretvarali smo2	pretvarali ste2	pretvarali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pretvarao2	bȉo si pretvarao2	bȉo je pretvarao2	bíli smo pretvarali2	bíli ste pretvarali2	bíli su pretvarali2
	Imperfect	pretvarah	pretvaraše	pretvaraše	pretvarasmo	pretvaraste	pretvarahu
Conditional I		pretvarao bih2	pretvarao bi2	pretvarao bi2	pretvarali bismo2	pretvarali biste2	pretvarali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pretvarao2	bȉo bi pretvarao2	bȉo bi pretvarao2	bíli bismo pretvarali2	bíli biste pretvarali2	bíli bi pretvarali2
Imperative		—	pretvaraj	—	pretvarajmo	pretvarajte	—
Active past participle		pretvarao m / pretvarala f / pretvaralo n			pretvarali m / pretvarale f / pretvarala n
Passive past participle		pretvaran m / pretvarana f / pretvarano n			pretvarani m / pretvarane f / pretvarana 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

• pretvòriti pf

Further reading

• “pretvarati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024