pritvarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pritʋǎːrati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧tva‧ra‧ti

Verb

pritvárati impf (Cyrillic spelling притва́рати)

  1. (transitive) to hold in custody, to arrest temporarily

Conjugation

Conjugation of pritvarati
infinitive pritvarati
present verbal adverb pritvárajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pritvárānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pritvaram pritvaraš pritvara pritvaramo pritvarate pritvaraju
future future I pritvarat ću1
pritvaraću
pritvarat ćeš1
pritvaraćeš
pritvarat će1
pritvaraće
pritvarat ćemo1
pritvaraćemo
pritvarat ćete1
pritvaraćete
pritvarat ćē1
pritvaraće
future II bȕdēm pritvarao2 bȕdēš pritvarao2 bȕdē pritvarao2 bȕdēmo pritvarali2 bȕdēte pritvarali2 bȕdū pritvarali2
past perfect pritvarao sam2 pritvarao si2 pritvarao je2 pritvarali smo2 pritvarali ste2 pritvarali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pritvarao2 bȉo si pritvarao2 bȉo je pritvarao2 bíli smo pritvarali2 bíli ste pritvarali2 bíli su pritvarali2
imperfect pritvarah pritvaraše pritvaraše pritvarasmo pritvaraste pritvarahu
conditional conditional I pritvarao bih2 pritvarao bi2 pritvarao bi2 pritvarali bismo2 pritvarali biste2 pritvarali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pritvarao2 bȉo bi pritvarao2 bȉo bi pritvarao2 bíli bismo pritvarali2 bíli biste pritvarali2 bíli bi pritvarali2
imperative pritvaraj pritvarajmo pritvarajte
active past participle pritvarao m / pritvarala f / pritvaralo n pritvarali m / pritvarale f / pritvarala n
passive past participle pritvaran m / pritvarana f / pritvarano n pritvarani m / pritvarane f / pritvarana 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.

Further reading

  • pritvarati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025