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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 81 Sneeze Once and Start Blooming 455 / 600

specific verbs:

ogladniti («) perf. get hungry

ozdraviti perf. recover, get healthy

razboljeti (razboli, ...) se² perf. get sick

For some meanings, you can either make someone something, or get something; the

second meaning requires a se² in Croatian, i.e. it’s another example of mediopassive

se², when the subject changes ‘on its own’:

perf. verb + A + se²

rasplakati (rasplače) drive to tears burst into tears

rastužiti («) make sad get sad

razljutiti («) make angry get angry

razveseliti («) cheer up (someone) cheer up

uvrijediti («) offend take offence

Such verbs usually start with ras- or raz-, as you can see. Such verbs sometimes

don’t have impf. pairs at all.

For some meanings in Croatian, there’s a full verb pair that indicates getting into a

state; the impf. verb sees entering a state as a process (e.g. it can take a while to

become sick, it can take a while to get old, etc.):

pokretati (pokreće) ~ pokrenuti (pokrene) get moving

starjeti/stariti ~ o- grow/get old

Therefore, there are verb triplets with two verbs for entering the state: one impf.

and another perf. A parallel in English would be:

I was getting hungry. = enter-impf.

I got hungry. = enter-perf.

I am hungry. = state (impf.)

There are three such triplets for body position verbs, one of them I’ve introduced in

52 Stand, Become, Exist, Cease; we can also list verbs be and become as a kind of

triplet:

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