dirati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dirati. Compare dèrati, drȁti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dǐːrati/
  • Hyphenation: di‧ra‧ti

Verb

dírati impf (Cyrillic spelling ди́рати)

  1. (transitive) to touch
  2. (transitive) to mess with someone

Conjugation

Conjugation of dirati
Infinitive: dirati Present verbal adverb: dírajūćī Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: dírānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present diram diraš dira diramo dirate diraju
Future Future I dirat ću1
diraću 		dirat ćeš1
diraćeš 		dirat će1
diraće 		dirat ćemo1
diraćemo 		dirat ćete1
diraćete 		dirat će1
diraće
Future II bȕdēm dirao2 bȕdēš dirao2 bȕdē dirao2 bȕdēmo dirali2 bȕdēte dirali2 bȕdū dirali2
Past Perfect dirao sam2 dirao si2 dirao je2 dirali smo2 dirali ste2 dirali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam dirao2 bȉo si dirao2 bȉo je dirao2 bíli smo dirali2 bíli ste dirali2 bíli su dirali2
Imperfect dirah diraše diraše dirasmo diraste dirahu
Conditional I dirao bih2 dirao bi2 dirao bi2 dirali bismo2 dirali biste2 dirali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih dirao2 bȉo bi dirao2 bȉo bi dirao2 bíli bismo dirali2 bíli biste dirali2 bíli bi dirali2
Imperative — diraj — dirajmo dirajte —
Active past participle dirao m / dirala f / diralo n dirali m / dirale f / dirala n
Passive past participle diran m / dirana f / dirano n dirani m / dirane f / dirana 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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Further reading

  • “dirati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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