No. 25 in Croatian
rekao
"Rekao" means "said" in English.
In a sentence
On mi je rekao sve o toj situaciji.
He told me everything about that situation.
In this sentence, 'rekao' is the past tense form of the verb 'reći,' conjugated for the third person singular masculine to express a completed action of telling.
Rekao bih ti, ali nije pravo vrijeme.
I would tell you, but it is not the right time.
Here, 'rekao bih' uses the conditional form of 'reći' (using the past participle along with the conditional marker 'bih') to express a hypothetical action of telling.
Zašto nisi ništa rekao učitelju?
Why didn't you tell the teacher anything?
In this example, 'rekao' is used in a negative past context, maintaining its role as the masculine past tense form of 'reći.'
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