posrtati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ srtati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǒsr̩tati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧sr‧ta‧ti

Verb

pòsrtati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀сртати)

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

Conjugation

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 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.

Further reading

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