graničiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From grànica.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrǎnit͡ʃiti/
  • Hyphenation: gra‧ni‧či‧ti

Verb

gràničiti impf (Cyrillic spelling гра̀ничити)

  1. (Croatia, Bosnia, intransitive) to border
  2. (Croatia, Bosnia, intransitive) to verge on
    graničiti s glupošću ― to verge on stupidity
  3. (Serbia, reflexive) to border
  4. (Serbia, reflexive) to verge on

Conjugation

Conjugation of graničiti
Infinitive: graničiti Present verbal adverb: gràničēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: gràničēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present graničim graničiš graniči graničimo graničite graniče
Future Future I graničit ću1
graničiću 		graničit ćeš1
graničićeš 		graničit će1
graničiće 		graničit ćemo1
graničićemo 		graničit ćete1
graničićete 		graničit će1
graničiće
Future II bȕdēm graničio2 bȕdēš graničio2 bȕdē graničio2 bȕdēmo graničili2 bȕdēte graničili2 bȕdū graničili2
Past Perfect graničio sam2 graničio si2 graničio je2 graničili smo2 graničili ste2 graničili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam graničio2 bȉo si graničio2 bȉo je graničio2 bíli smo graničili2 bíli ste graničili2 bíli su graničili2
Imperfect graničah graničaše graničaše graničasmo graničaste graničahu
Conditional I graničio bih2 graničio bi2 graničio bi2 graničili bismo2 graničili biste2 graničili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih graničio2 bȉo bi graničio2 bȉo bi graničio2 bíli bismo graničili2 bíli biste graničili2 bíli bi graničili2
Imperative — graniči — graničimo graničite —
Active past participle graničio m / graničila f / graničilo n graničili m / graničile f / graničila 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.

Derived terms

References

  • “graničiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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