preotimati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /preǒtimati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧o‧ti‧ma‧ti

Verb

preòtimati impf (Cyrillic spelling прео̀тимати)

  1. (transitive) to kidnap back, to take back what was kidnapped from oneself.
  2. (transitive) to hijack (forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination)

Conjugation

Conjugation of preotimati
infinitive preotimati
present verbal adverb preòtimajūći / preòtimljūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun preòtimānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present preotimam preotimaš preotima preotimamo preotimate preotimaju
future future I preotimat ću1
preotimaću
preotimat ćeš1
preotimaćeš
preotimat će1
preotimaće
preotimat ćemo1
preotimaćemo
preotimat ćete1
preotimaćete
preotimat ćē1
preotimaće
future II bȕdēm preotimao2 bȕdēš preotimao2 bȕdē preotimao2 bȕdēmo preotimali2 bȕdēte preotimali2 bȕdū preotimali2
past perfect preotimao sam2 preotimao si2 preotimao je2 preotimali smo2 preotimali ste2 preotimali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam preotimao2 bȉo si preotimao2 bȉo je preotimao2 bíli smo preotimali2 bíli ste preotimali2 bíli su preotimali2
imperfect preotimah preotimaše preotimaše preotimasmo preotimaste preotimahu
conditional conditional I preotimao bih2 preotimao bi2 preotimao bi2 preotimali bismo2 preotimali biste2 preotimali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih preotimao2 bȉo bi preotimao2 bȉo bi preotimao2 bíli bismo preotimali2 bíli biste preotimali2 bíli bi preotimali2
imperative preotimaj preotimajmo preotimajte
active past participle preotimao m / preotimala f / preotimalo n preotimali m / preotimale f / preotimala n
passive past participle preotiman m / preotimana f / preotimano n preotimani m / preotimane f / preotimana 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

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