krčiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъrčiti. First attested in the 15th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kř̩ːt͡ʃiti/
  • Hyphenation: kr‧či‧ti

Verb

kŕčiti impf (Cyrillic spelling кр́чити)

  1. (transitive) to clear, clear away (forest, path, land)

Conjugation

Conjugation of krčiti
infinitive krčiti
present verbal adverb kŕčēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun kŕčēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present krčim krčiš krči krčimo krčite krče
future future I krčit ću1
krčiću
krčit ćeš1
krčićeš
krčit će1
krčiće
krčit ćemo1
krčićemo
krčit ćete1
krčićete
krčit ćē1
krčiće
future II bȕdēm krčio2 bȕdēš krčio2 bȕdē krčio2 bȕdēmo krčili2 bȕdēte krčili2 bȕdū krčili2
past perfect krčio sam2 krčio si2 krčio je2 krčili smo2 krčili ste2 krčili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam krčio2 bȉo si krčio2 bȉo je krčio2 bíli smo krčili2 bíli ste krčili2 bíli su krčili2
imperfect krčah krčaše krčaše krčasmo krčaste krčahu
conditional conditional I krčio bih2 krčio bi2 krčio bi2 krčili bismo2 krčili biste2 krčili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih krčio2 bȉo bi krčio2 bȉo bi krčio2 bíli bismo krčili2 bíli biste krčili2 bíli bi krčili2
imperative krči krčimo krčite
active past participle krčio m / krčila f / krčilo n krčili m / krčile f / krčila n
passive past participle krčen m / krčena f / krčeno n krčeni m / krčene f / krčena 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

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kŕčiti”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 494

Further reading

  • кр́чити”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2015–2025