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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A3 Verbs 505 / 600

The endings with a vowel (-o-h, etc.) are used only with verbs that have infinitives

ending in -sti or -ći. For all other verbs, the aorist forms are simply formed from the

infinitive by discarding -ti and adding aorist endings:

inf

naučiti perf. learn

uzeti perf. take

pojesti perf. eat

aor-1

naučih

uzeh

pojedoh

For more information about forming the aorist tense for verbs in -sti or -ći, check

With possible sound shifts in infinitive and present below.

Simple verb classes

These are the easiest verb classes:

inf pres-3 past-m

a -a-ti -a -a-o

i -i-ti -i -i-o

n -nu-ti -n-e -nu-o

ova/uje -ova-ti -uj-e -ova-o

Two out of four classes are completely determined by their infinitive form: all verbs

with infinitives in -nuti belong to the n-verbs, and all verbs with infinitives in -ovati

belong to ova/uje-verbs.

Unfortunately, it doesn't hold for verbs ending in -ati or -iti: they are not all a-verbs

or i-verbs.

A great majority of verbs belong to these four verb classes. Past forms are simply

obtained from the infinitive. Unprefixed a-verbs are more or less all imperfective, as

almost all ova/uje-verbs. Virtually all n-verbs are perfective, except for the following

verbs:

brinuti worry

čeznuti yearn

ginuti perish, die

tonuti sink

trnuti numb

trunuti rot

venuti wither

The a-verbs are the default class of verbs: all new verbs that are adapted into

Croatian (mostly colloquially) are adapted as a-verbs:

četati chat (over Internet)

printati print (from a PC)

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