Meaning of pre- | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Prefix prepended to adjectives and adverbs to denote excess of a feature; too, excessively, over-
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2. Prefix prepended to verbs to indicate an action being done excessively, again or differently; re-, over-
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3. Prefix prepended to verbs to indicate change in form, especially through partition
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4. Prefix prepended to imperfective verbs to make them perfective; to indicate that the action has been carried out
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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.