Meaning of pre- | Babel Free
Definitions
- Prefix prepended to adjectives and adverbs to denote excess of a feature; too, excessively, over-
- Prefix prepended to verbs to indicate an action being done excessively, again or differently; re-, over-
- Prefix prepended to verbs to indicate change in form, especially through partition
- Prefix prepended to imperfective verbs to make them perfective; to indicate that the action has been carried out
Equivalents
Examples
“dug / predug”
long / overlong
“trpati / pretrpati”
to stuff / to overstuff
“prepoloviti”
split up
“Spavat ću u hotelu. Prespavao sam u hotelu.”
I will sleep in a hotel. I slept (over) in a hotel.
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