poručiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of poručiti

Infinitive: poručiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: porúčīvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
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 će1 poručiće
	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 I		poručio bih2	poručio bi2	poručio bi2	poručili bismo2	poručili biste2	poručili bi2
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

• poručívati impf
• poruka

Further reading

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