vratiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vortìti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wártīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *wortéyeti, from the root *wert-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋrǎːtiti/
  • IPA^(key): /ʋrǎːiti/ (Zagreb)
• Hyphenation: vra‧ti‧ti

Verb

vrátiti pf (Cyrillic spelling вра́тити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to return, come back

   Dobro se vratio/la/li/le! ― Welcome back!

   Sine, vrati se ― Come Back, Son (song by Tomislav Ivčić)

2. (transitive) to return, give back, bring back
3. (transitive) to reverse, turn back

Conjugation

Conjugation of vratiti

infinitive		vratiti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		vrátīvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		vratim	vratiš	vrati	vratimo	vratite	vrate
future	future I	vratit ću1 vratiću	vratit ćeš1 vratićeš	vratit će1 vratiće	vratit ćemo1 vratićemo	vratit ćete1 vratićete	vratit ćē1 vratiće
	future II	bȕdēm vratio2	bȕdēš vratio2	bȕdē vratio2	bȕdēmo vratili2	bȕdēte vratili2	bȕdū vratili2
past	perfect	vratio sam2	vratio si2	vratio je2	vratili smo2	vratili ste2	vratili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam vratio2	bȉo si vratio2	bȉo je vratio2	bíli smo vratili2	bíli ste vratili2	bíli su vratili2
	aorist	vratih	vrati	vrati	vratismo	vratiste	vratiše
conditional	conditional I	vratio bih2	vratio bi2	vratio bi2	vratili bismo2	vratili biste2	vratili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih vratio2	bȉo bi vratio2	bȉo bi vratio2	bíli bismo vratili2	bíli biste vratili2	bíli bi vratili2
imperative		—	vrati	—	vratimo	vratite	—
active past participle		vratio m / vratila f / vratilo n			vratili m / vratile f / vratila n
passive past participle		vraćen m / vraćena f / vraćeno n			vraćeni m / vraćene f / vraćena 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

• vraćati impf
• povratak m

Further reading

• “vratiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026