posrtati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ srtati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒsr̩tati/
• Hyphenation: po‧sr‧ta‧ti

Verb

pòsrtati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀сртати)

1. (intransitive) to trip, stumble (also figuratively)
2. (intransitive) to corrupt, ruin (morally, of success etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of posrtati

Infinitive: posrtati		Present verbal adverb: pòsrćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pòsrtānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		posrćem	posrćeš	posrće	posrćemo	posrćete	posrću
Future	Future I	posrtat ću1 posrtaću	posrtat ćeš1 posrtaćeš	posrtat će1 posrtaće	posrtat ćemo1 posrtaćemo	posrtat ćete1 posrtaćete	posrtat će1 posrtaće
	Future II	bȕdēm posrtao2	bȕdēš posrtao2	bȕdē posrtao2	bȕdēmo posrtali2	bȕdēte posrtali2	bȕdū posrtali2
Past	Perfect	posrtao sam2	posrtao si2	posrtao je2	posrtali smo2	posrtali ste2	posrtali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam posrtao2	bȉo si posrtao2	bȉo je posrtao2	bíli smo posrtali2	bíli ste posrtali2	bíli su posrtali2
	Imperfect	posrtah	posrtaše	posrtaše	posrtasmo	posrtaste	posrtahu
Conditional I		posrtao bih2	posrtao bi2	posrtao bi2	posrtali bismo2	posrtali biste2	posrtali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih posrtao2	bȉo bi posrtao2	bȉo bi posrtao2	bíli bismo posrtali2	bíli biste posrtali2	bíli bi posrtali2
Imperative		—	posrći	—	posrćimo	posrćite	—
Active past participle		posrtao m / posrtala f / posrtalo n			posrtali m / posrtale f / posrtala 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

• posŕnuti pf

Further reading

• “posrtati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024