praviti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /prâʋiti/
Hyphenation: pra‧vi‧ti

Verb

prȁviti impf (Cyrillic spelling пра̏вити)

(transitive) to make, create
(transitive) to do, cause, deal (damage, trouble, inconvenience etc.)
(reflexive, colloquial) to fake, pretend
(with adjective) Neki ljudi se prave pametni. ― Some people pretend to be smart.

(with da + subordinate clause) Pravit ću se da to nisam vidio. ― I'll pretend that I didn't see that.

Conjugation

Conjugation of praviti

Infinitive: praviti		Present verbal adverb: prȁvēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prȁvljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pravim	praviš	pravi	pravimo	pravite	prave
Future	Future I	pravit ću¹ praviću	pravit ćeš¹ pravićeš	pravit će¹ praviće	pravit ćemo¹ pravićemo	pravit ćete¹ pravićete	pravit će¹ praviće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm pravio²	bȕdēš pravio²	bȕdē pravio²	bȕdēmo pravili²	bȕdēte pravili²	bȕdū pravili²
Past	Perfect	pravio sam²	pravio si²	pravio je²	pravili smo²	pravili ste²	pravili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam pravio²	bȉo si pravio²	bȉo je pravio²	bíli smo pravili²	bíli ste pravili²	bíli su pravili²
	Imperfect	pravljah	pravljaše	pravljaše	pravljasmo	pravljaste	pravljahu
Conditional I		pravio bih²	pravio bi²	pravio bi²	pravili bismo²	pravili biste²	pravili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih pravio²	bȉo bi pravio²	bȉo bi pravio²	bíli bismo pravili²	bíli biste pravili²	bíli bi pravili²
Imperative		—	pravi	—	pravimo	pravite	—
Active past participle		pravio m / pravila f / pravilo n			pravili m / pravile f / pravila n
Passive past participle		pravljen m / pravljena f / pravljeno n			pravljeni m / pravljene f / pravljena 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.

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