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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A3 Verbs 512 / 600

inf

pres-3

pres-3pl

past-m

past-f

imper-2

pass. adj.

vu-ći

vu-če

vu-ku

vu-kao

vu-kla

vu-ci

vu-čen

Such verbs are (only infinitives are listed for brevity):

obući perf. wear (clothes)

peći bake

reći perf. say

sjeći (siječe) cut

teći flow

tući beat

vući pull

Of course, there are also verbs derived from them. The verb sjeći has ije instead of

je in present forms.

Verbs in all these classes, from s-root to k/g-root have a rightward stress shift in the

present tense (in the Standard scheme) if they have at least three syllables:

odrasti (odraste)

ispeći (ispeče)

obući (obuče)

All these classes have the aor-1 in -oh, with their historic final consonants:

inf aor-1

d/t-root pojesti pres-3 pojede pojed-oh

k/g-root reći past-m rekao rek-oh

In aor-23, the consonant before the ending -e changes like in pres forms:

rekoh aor-1 → reče aor-23

With vowel alternation

These classes have their pres-3 different from inf/past not by change of consonants,

but vowels. They are further divided into three subclasses. The first one has

infinitive on -ati; it contains the following common verbs:

brati (bere) pick (fruits)

klati (kolje) slaughter

prati (pere) wash

srati (sere) shit (impolite!)

slati (šalje) send

zvati (zove) call

All these verbs are imperfective, verbs derived from them by prefixing are all

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