posvetiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ svet +‎ -iti. Compare Polish poświęcić, Russian посвяти́ть (posvjatítʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /posʋěːtiti/
  • Hyphenation: po‧sve‧ti‧ti

Verb

posvétiti pf (Cyrillic spelling посве́тити, imperfective posvećívati)

  1. (intransitive, with dative) to dedicate
  2. (intransitive, with dative) to write dedication
  3. (reflexive, with dative) to devote oneself to sth
  4. (transitive) to consecrate, sanctify

Conjugation

Conjugation of posvetiti
infinitive posvetiti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb posvétīvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present posvetim posvetiš posveti posvetimo posvetite posvete
future future I posvetit ću1
posvetiću
posvetit ćeš1
posvetićeš
posvetit će1
posvetiće
posvetit ćemo1
posvetićemo
posvetit ćete1
posvetićete
posvetit ćē1
posvetiće
future II bȕdēm posvetio2 bȕdēš posvetio2 bȕdē posvetio2 bȕdēmo posvetili2 bȕdēte posvetili2 bȕdū posvetili2
past perfect posvetio sam2 posvetio si2 posvetio je2 posvetili smo2 posvetili ste2 posvetili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam posvetio2 bȉo si posvetio2 bȉo je posvetio2 bíli smo posvetili2 bíli ste posvetili2 bíli su posvetili2
aorist posvetih posveti posveti posvetismo posvetiste posvetiše
conditional conditional I posvetio bih2 posvetio bi2 posvetio bi2 posvetili bismo2 posvetili biste2 posvetili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih posvetio2 bȉo bi posvetio2 bȉo bi posvetio2 bíli bismo posvetili2 bíli biste posvetili2 bíli bi posvetili2
imperative posveti posvetimo posvetite
active past participle posvetio m / posvetila f / posvetilo n posvetili m / posvetile f / posvetila n
passive past participle posvećen m / posvećena f / posvećeno n posvećeni m / posvećene f / posvećena 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

  • posvetiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
  • Matea Birtić et al. (2012), “posvetiti”, in Školski rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [School Dictionary of the Croatian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje [Institute of the Croatian Language and Linguistics]; Školska knjiga