oporicati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /opǒrit͡sati/
Hyphenation: o‧po‧ri‧ca‧ti

Verb

opòricati impf (Cyrillic spelling опо̀рицати)

(transitive) to deny (assert that something is not true)
(transitive, intransitive) to retract (take back or withdraw something one has said)
(transitive) to disavow (refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; deny responsibility)
(transitive, intransitive) to unsay
(transitive) to gainsay, contradict

Conjugation

Conjugation of oporicati

Infinitive: oporicati		Present verbal adverb: opòričūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: opòricānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		oporičem	oporičeš	oporiče	oporičemo	oporičete	oporiču
Future	Future I	oporicat ću¹ oporicaću	oporicat ćeš¹ oporicaćeš	oporicat će¹ oporicaće	oporicat ćemo¹ oporicaćemo	oporicat ćete¹ oporicaćete	oporicat će¹ oporicaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm oporicao²	bȕdēš oporicao²	bȕdē oporicao²	bȕdēmo oporicali²	bȕdēte oporicali²	bȕdū oporicali²
Past	Perfect	oporicao sam²	oporicao si²	oporicao je²	oporicali smo²	oporicali ste²	oporicali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam oporicao²	bȉo si oporicao²	bȉo je oporicao²	bíli smo oporicali²	bíli ste oporicali²	bíli su oporicali²
	Imperfect	oporicah	oporicaše	oporicaše	oporicasmo	oporicaste	oporicahu
Conditional I		oporicao bih²	oporicao bi²	oporicao bi²	oporicali bismo²	oporicali biste²	oporicali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih oporicao²	bȉo bi oporicao²	bȉo bi oporicao²	bíli bismo oporicali²	bíli biste oporicali²	bíli bi oporicali²
Imperative		—	oporiči	—	oporičimo	oporičite	—
Active past participle		oporicao m / oporicala f / oporicalo n			oporicali m / oporicale f / oporicala n
Passive past participle		oporican m / oporicana f / oporicano n			oporicani m / oporicane f / oporicana 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.

Related terms

opòreći pf