brusiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *brusiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brǔːsiti/
  • Hyphenation: bru‧si‧ti

Verb

brúsiti impf (Cyrillic spelling бру́сити)

  1. (transitive) to whet, sharpen (blade of something)
  2. (transitive) to glaze, polish (surface of something, such as parquet)

Conjugation

Conjugation of brusiti
infinitive brusiti
present verbal adverb brúsēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun brúšēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present brusim brusiš brusi brusimo brusite bruse
future future I brusit ću1
brusiću
brusit ćeš1
brusićeš
brusit će1
brusiće
brusit ćemo1
brusićemo
brusit ćete1
brusićete
brusit ćē1
brusiće
future II bȕdēm brusio2 bȕdēš brusio2 bȕdē brusio2 bȕdēmo brusili2 bȕdēte brusili2 bȕdū brusili2
past perfect brusio sam2 brusio si2 brusio je2 brusili smo2 brusili ste2 brusili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam brusio2 bȉo si brusio2 bȉo je brusio2 bíli smo brusili2 bíli ste brusili2 bíli su brusili2
imperfect brušah brušaše brušaše brušasmo brušaste brušahu
conditional conditional I brusio bih2 brusio bi2 brusio bi2 brusili bismo2 brusili biste2 brusili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih brusio2 bȉo bi brusio2 bȉo bi brusio2 bíli bismo brusili2 bíli biste brusili2 bíli bi brusili2
imperative brusi brusimo brusite
active past participle brusio m / brusila f / brusilo n brusili m / brusile f / brusila n
passive past participle brušen m / brušena f / brušeno n brušeni m / brušene f / brušena 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

  • brusiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025