poručiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *porǫčiti (“to hand to, to leave to somebody”), a formation from *rǫka (“hand”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /porǔːt͡ʃiti/
Hyphenation: po‧ru‧či‧ti

Verb

porúčiti pf (Cyrillic spelling пору́чити, imperfective poručívati)

(intransitive) to send word, inform sb
(Serbia, transitive) to order (an item)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *poručiti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		poručiti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		porúčīvši
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		poručim	poručiš	poruči	poručimo	poručite	poruče
future	future I	poručit ću¹ poručiću	poručit ćeš¹ poručićeš	poručit će¹ poručiće	poručit ćemo¹ poručićemo	poručit ćete¹ poručićete	poručit ćē¹ poručiće
future	future II	bȕdēm poručio²	bȕdēš poručio²	bȕdē poručio²	bȕdēmo poručili²	bȕdēte poručili²	bȕdū poručili²
past	perfect	poručio sam²	poručio si²	poručio je²	poručili smo²	poručili ste²	poručili su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam poručio²	bȉo si poručio²	bȉo je poručio²	bíli smo poručili²	bíli ste poručili²	bíli su poručili²
	aorist	poručih	poruči	poruči	poručismo	poručiste	poručiše
conditional	conditional I	poručio bih²	poručio bi²	poručio bi²	poručili bismo²	poručili biste²	poručili bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih poručio²	bȉo bi poručio²	bȉo bi poručio²	bíli bismo poručili²	bíli biste poručili²	bíli bi poručili²
imperative		—	poruči	—	poručimo	poručite	—
active past participle		poručio m / poručila f / poručilo n			poručili m / poručile f / poručila n
passive past participle		poručen m / poručena f / poručeno n			poručeni m / poručene f / poručena 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.

Related terms

poruka