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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A3 Verbs 510 / 600

(to be expanded)

Vowel-root

This class is the simplest one historically, there's just -ti in infinitive and -je in pres-3:

inf pres-3 past-m

vowel-root -ti -j-e -o

Only a limited number of verbs fall into this class:

biti (bije) beat

čuti (čuje) hear

kriti (krije) hide

piti (pije) drink

šiti (šije) sew

viti (vije) wave

The verb biti (bije) is rare in Croatia nowadays, but verbs derived from it – e.g. ubiti

(ubije) perf. kill – are common. The same holds for viti (vije). One more verb – šiti

(šije) – is archaic, šivati is much more frequent in meaning sew – but verbs derived

from it are not.

Additionally, two perfective verbs also fall into this class:

obuti (obuje) perf. put on (shoes)

umiti (umije) perf. wash (face)

With possible sound shifts in infinitive and present

This set of classes is basically the same as vowel-root, but they historically didn't

have a vowel before -ti in infinitive, so all kinds of sound assimilations happened in

the infinitive as well as in the present! Verbs belonging to this class often have

different consonants in all three main forms (infinitive, present, past). Most verbs in

this group have -ao in past-m.

It's possible to group verbs based on their (historic) final consonants. Following

classes don't have major alternations; they characteristically have -sti in the

infinitive, and their historic final consonant is revealed in present forms:

inf pres-3 past-m past-f

s-root -s-ti -s-e -s-a-o -s-la

st-root -s-ti -st-e -st-a-o -s-la

b-root -ps-ti -b-e -b-a-o -b-la

z-root -s-ti -z-e -z-a-o -z-la

d/t-root

-s-ti -d-e -o -la

-s-ti -t-e -o -la

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