profiniti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From pro- +‎ fin.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /profǐːniti/
Hyphenation: pro‧fi‧ni‧ti

Verb edit

profíniti pf (Cyrillic spelling профи́нити)

(transitive, reflexive, colloquial) to refine, sophisticate (in behavior)
(transitive, reflexive, colloquial, ironically) to become priggish, to become artificially fastidious (in taste)

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of profiniti

Infinitive: profiniti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: profínīvši		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		profinim	profiniš	profini	profinimo	profinite	profine
Future	Future I	profinit ću¹ profiniću	profinit ćeš¹ profinićeš	profinit će¹ profiniće	profinit ćemo¹ profinićemo	profinit ćete¹ profinićete	profinit će¹ profiniće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm profinio²	bȕdēš profinio²	bȕdē profinio²	bȕdēmo profinili²	bȕdēte profinili²	bȕdū profinili²
Past	Perfect	profinio sam²	profinio si²	profinio je²	profinili smo²	profinili ste²	profinili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam profinio²	bȉo si profinio²	bȉo je profinio²	bíli smo profinili²	bíli ste profinili²	bíli su profinili²
	Aorist	profinih	profini	profini	profinismo	profiniste	profiniše
Conditional I		profinio bih²	profinio bi²	profinio bi²	profinili bismo²	profinili biste²	profinili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih profinio²	bȉo bi profinio²	bȉo bi profinio²	bíli bismo profinili²	bíli biste profinili²	bíli bi profinili²
Imperative		—	profini	—	profinimo	profinite	—
Active past participle		profinio m / profinila f / profinilo n			profinili m / profinile f / profinila n
Passive past participle		profinjen m / profinjena f / profinjeno n			profinjeni m / profinjene f / profinjena 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.

References edit

“profiniti” in Hrvatski jezični portal