vrteti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• vr̀tjeti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьrtěti, from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋřteti/
• Hyphenation: vr‧te‧ti

Verb

vr̀teti impf (Cyrillic spelling вр̀тети)

1. (transitive) to turn (move around an axis through itself)
2. (intransitive, with instrumental) to shake
3. (reflexive) to spin
4. (reflexive) to fidget, squirm

Conjugation

Conjugation of vrteti

infinitive		vrteti
present verbal adverb		vr̀tēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		vr̀ćēnje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		vrtim	vrtiš	vrti	vrtimo	vrtite	vrte
future	future I	vrtet ću1 vrteću	vrtet ćeš1 vrtećeš	vrtet će1 vrteće	vrtet ćemo1 vrtećemo	vrtet ćete1 vrtećete	vrtet ćē1 vrteće
	future II	bȕdēm vrteo2	bȕdēš vrteo2	bȕdē vrteo2	bȕdēmo vrteli2	bȕdēte vrteli2	bȕdū vrteli2
past	perfect	vrteo sam2	vrteo si2	vrteo je2	vrteli smo2	vrteli ste2	vrteli su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam vrteo2	bȉo si vrteo2	bȉo je vrteo2	bíli smo vrteli2	bíli ste vrteli2	bíli su vrteli2
	imperfect	vrćah	vrćaše	vrćaše	vrćasmo	vrćaste	vrćahu
conditional	conditional I	vrteo bih2	vrteo bi2	vrteo bi2	vrteli bismo2	vrteli biste2	vrteli bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih vrteo2	bȉo bi vrteo2	bȉo bi vrteo2	bíli bismo vrteli2	bíli biste vrteli2	bíli bi vrteli2
imperative		—	vrti	—	vrtimo	vrtite	—
active past participle		vrteo m / vrtela f / vrtelo n			vrteli m / vrtele f / vrtela n
passive past participle		vrćen m / vrćena f / vrćeno n			vrćeni m / vrćene f / vrćena 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.

Derived terms

• izvr̀teti
• odvr̀teti
• provr̀teti
• uvr̀teti
• uzvr̀teti
• vrtòglav
• zavr̀teti