oteti
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *otęti, from *o(t) (whence o, od-) + *ęti (compare ìmati (“to have”)). Compare Old Czech otieti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǒteːti/
- Hyphenation: o‧te‧ti
Verb
òtēti pf (Cyrillic spelling о̀те̄ти)
- (transitive) to kidnap
- (transitive) to hijack (forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination)
- (reflexive) to free oneself from (especially of impression)
Conjugation
Conjugation of oteti
| Infinitive: oteti | Present verbal adverb: — | Past verbal adverb: otēvši | Verbal noun: — | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | otmem | otmeš | otme | otmemo | otmete | otmu | |
| Future | Future I | otet ću1 oteću | otet ćeš1 otećeš | otet će1 oteće | otet ćemo1 otećemo | otet ćete1 otećete | otet će1 oteće |
| Future II | bȕdēm oteo2 | bȕdēš oteo2 | bȕdē oteo2 | bȕdēmo oteli2 | bȕdēte oteli2 | bȕdū oteli2 | |
| Past | Perfect | oteo sam2 | oteo si2 | oteo je2 | oteli smo2 | oteli ste2 | oteli su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam oteo2 | bȉo si oteo2 | bȉo je oteo2 | bíli smo oteli2 | bíli ste oteli2 | bíli su oteli2 | |
| Aorist | oteh | ote | ote | otesmo | oteste | oteše | |
| Conditional I | oteo bih2 | oteo bi2 | oteo bi2 | oteli bismo2 | oteli biste2 | oteli bi2 | |
| Conditional II4 | bȉo bih oteo2 | bȉo bi oteo2 | bȉo bi oteo2 | bíli bismo oteli2 | bíli biste oteli2 | bíli bi oteli2 | |
| Imperative | — | otmi | — | otmimo | otmite | — | |
| Active past participle | oteo m / otela f / otelo n | oteli m / otele f / otela n | |||||
| Passive past participle | otet m / oteta f / oteto n | oteti m / otete f / oteta n | |||||
| 1 Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. 2 For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. 3 Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. 4 Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. | |||||||
Derived terms
- preòtēti
Related terms
- òtimati impf
Further reading
- “oteti” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔtèːti/
Verb
otẹ́ti pf
- to save, to protect
- to take away (with force)
Inflection
| Sonorant + -ti -(j)em (AP c) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | otẹ́ti | |||||
| 1st singular | otmȅm | |||||
| infinitive | otẹ́ti | otȅt, otẹ̑t | ||||
| supine | otȅt, otẹ̑t | |||||
| verbal noun | otẹ́tje | |||||
| participle | converb | |||||
| present | — | — | ||||
| past | otẹ̑t | — | ||||
| l-participle | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| singular | otẹ̑ł | otẹ́la | otẹ̑lo | |||
| dual | otẹ̑la | otẹ̑li | otẹ̑li | |||
| plural | otẹ̑li | otẹ̑le | otẹ̑la | |||
| present | imperative | |||||
| 1st singular | otmȅm | — | ||||
| 2nd singular | otmȅš | otmȉ | ||||
| 3rd singular | otmȅ | — | ||||
| 1st dual | otméva | otmȋva | ||||
| 2nd dual | otméta | otmȋta | ||||
| 3rd dual | otméta | — | ||||
| 1st plural | otmémo | otmȋmo | ||||
| 2nd plural | otméte | otmȋte | ||||
| 3rd plural | otméjo | — | ||||
Further reading
- “oteti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran