posrtati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From po- +‎ srtati.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /pǒsrtati/
Hyphenation: po‧sr‧ta‧ti

Verb edit

pòsrtati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀сртати)

(intransitive) to trip, stumble (also figuratively)
(intransitive) to corrupt, ruin (morally, of success etc.)

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of posrtati

Infinitive: posrtati		Present verbal adverb: pòsrćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pòsrtānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		posrćem	posrćeš	posrće	posrćemo	posrćete	posrću
Future	Future I	posrtat ću¹ posrtaću	posrtat ćeš¹ posrtaćeš	posrtat će¹ posrtaće	posrtat ćemo¹ posrtaćemo	posrtat ćete¹ posrtaćete	posrtat će¹ posrtaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm posrtao²	bȕdēš posrtao²	bȕdē posrtao²	bȕdēmo posrtali²	bȕdēte posrtali²	bȕdū posrtali²
Past	Perfect	posrtao sam²	posrtao si²	posrtao je²	posrtali smo²	posrtali ste²	posrtali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam posrtao²	bȉo si posrtao²	bȉo je posrtao²	bíli smo posrtali²	bíli ste posrtali²	bíli su posrtali²
	Imperfect	posrtah	posrtaše	posrtaše	posrtasmo	posrtaste	posrtahu
Conditional I		posrtao bih²	posrtao bi²	posrtao bi²	posrtali bismo²	posrtali biste²	posrtali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih posrtao²	bȉo bi posrtao²	bȉo bi posrtao²	bíli bismo posrtali²	bíli biste posrtali²	bíli bi posrtali²
Imperative		—	posrći	—	posrćimo	posrćite	—
Active past participle		posrtao m / posrtala f / posrtalo n			posrtali m / posrtale f / posrtala 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. *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

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