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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A3 Verbs 513 / 600

perfective; both have have pass. adj. ending in -an (e.g. pozvan invited).

The next class has infinitives in -eti and -uti:

kleti (kune) curse

mljeti (melje) mill

žeti (žanje) rip, harvest

naduti (nadme) perf. bloat

oteti (otme) perf. hijack

uzeti (uzme) perf. take

The following roots also fall into this class; they are used to derive several important

verbs, all perfective:

-četi (-čne):

početi (počne) perf. begin

začeti (začne) perf. conceive

-peti (-pne):

napeti (napne) perf. wind up

popeti (popne) se² perf. climb

raspeti (raspne) perf. crucify

zapeti (zapne) perf. stumble

-suti (-spe):

nasuti (naspe) perf. cover

rasuti (raspe) perf. dissipate

The verbs from this class have pass. adj. obtained just by removing -i from the

infinitive (e.g. počet, napet, rasut, otet). This all also holds for verbs derived from

them by prefixing.

Finally, these two verbs are today quite archaic, but verbs derived from them are

common:

mrijeti (mre, mro) die

strijeti (stre, stro) spread

The second verb has another possible infinitive form: strti. These verbs are

imperfective; verbs derived from them by prefixing (e.g. u-mrijeti) are perfective,

and still belong to this class. To get impf. pairs of the prefixed verbs, use verbs

ending on -irati (-ire), e.g. um-irati (um-ire).

With inserted n in present

Certain verbs have present like n-verbs, but have infinitives without n, leading to all

possible sound shifts in infinitive and past forms. All such verbs are perfective.

This is the only verb in this class without sound shifts (and all verbs derived from it,

most of them very frequent!):

stati (stane) perf. stop

The following verbs behave as d/t-root in the past and infinitive:

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