Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of imitative origin, similar to Polish ciurkać (“to trickle, drip”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]cúriti impf (Cyrillic spelling цу́рити)
- (intransitive) to drip, leak, run (of liquid)
- Synonym: kapati
Conjugation
[edit]| infinitive | curiti | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present verbal adverb | cúrēći | ||||||
| past verbal adverb | — | ||||||
| verbal noun | cúrēnje | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | ||
| present | curim | curiš | curi | curimo | curite | cure | |
| future | future I | curit ću1 curiću |
curit ćeš1 curićeš |
curit će1 curiće |
curit ćemo1 curićemo |
curit ćete1 curićete |
curit ćē1 curiće |
| future II | bȕdēm curio2 | bȕdēš curio2 | bȕdē curio2 | bȕdēmo curili2 | bȕdēte curili2 | bȕdū curili2 | |
| past | perfect | curio sam2 | curio si2 | curio je2 | curili smo2 | curili ste2 | curili su2 |
| pluperfect3 | bȉo sam curio2 | bȉo si curio2 | bȉo je curio2 | bíli smo curili2 | bíli ste curili2 | bíli su curili2 | |
| imperfect | curah | curaše | curaše | curasmo | curaste | curahu | |
| conditional | conditional I | curio bih2 | curio bi2 | curio bi2 | curili bismo2 | curili biste2 | curili bi2 |
| conditional II4 | bȉo bih curio2 | bȉo bi curio2 | bȉo bi curio2 | bíli bismo curili2 | bíli biste curili2 | bíli bi curili2 | |
| imperative | — | curi | — | curimo | curite | — | |
| active past participle | curio m / curila f / curilo n | curili m / curile f / curila 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
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “curiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
