brinuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From brȉga.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /brînuti/
Hyphenation: bri‧nu‧ti

Verb

brȉnuti impf (Cyrillic spelling бри̏нути)

(transitive, reflexive) to worry
Brine me što ga ne vidim. ― It worries me that I can't see him.

Ne brini! - Do not worry!
(reflexive, locative) to care (with o)
(reflexive, locative) to take care (with o)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *brinuti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		brinuti
present verbal adverb		brȉnūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		brinem	brineš	brine	brinemo	brinete	brinu
future	future I	brinut ću¹ brinuću	brinut ćeš¹ brinućeš	brinut će¹ brinuće	brinut ćemo¹ brinućemo	brinut ćete¹ brinućete	brinut ćē¹ brinuće
future	future II	bȕdēm brinuo²	bȕdēš brinuo²	bȕdē brinuo²	bȕdēmo brinuli²	bȕdēte brinuli²	bȕdū brinuli²
past	perfect	brinuo sam²	brinuo si²	brinuo je²	brinuli smo²	brinuli ste²	brinuli su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam brinuo²	bȉo si brinuo²	bȉo je brinuo²	bíli smo brinuli²	bíli ste brinuli²	bíli su brinuli²
	imperfect	brinjah	brinjaše	brinjaše	brinjasmo	brinjaste	brinjahu
conditional	conditional I	brinuo bih²	brinuo bi²	brinuo bi²	brinuli bismo²	brinuli biste²	brinuli bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih brinuo²	bȉo bi brinuo²	bȉo bi brinuo²	bíli bismo brinuli²	bíli biste brinuli²	bíli bi brinuli²
imperative		—	brini	—	brinimo	brinite	—
active past participle		brinuo m / brinula f / brinulo n			brinuli m / brinule f / brinula 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

“brinuti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025