graničiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From grànica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrǎnit͡ʃiti/
• Hyphenation: gra‧ni‧či‧ti

Verb

gràničiti impf (Cyrillic spelling гра̀ничити)

1. (Croatia, Bosnia, intransitive) to border
2. (Croatia, Bosnia, intransitive) to verge on

   graničiti s glupošću ― to verge on stupidity

3. (Serbia, reflexive) to border
4. (Serbia, reflexive) to verge on

Conjugation

Conjugation of graničiti

Infinitive: graničiti		Present verbal adverb: gràničēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: gràničēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		graničim	graničiš	graniči	graničimo	graničite	graniče
Future	Future I	graničit ću1 graničiću	graničit ćeš1 graničićeš	graničit će1 graničiće	graničit ćemo1 graničićemo	graničit ćete1 graničićete	graničit će1 graničiće
	Future II	bȕdēm graničio2	bȕdēš graničio2	bȕdē graničio2	bȕdēmo graničili2	bȕdēte graničili2	bȕdū graničili2
Past	Perfect	graničio sam2	graničio si2	graničio je2	graničili smo2	graničili ste2	graničili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam graničio2	bȉo si graničio2	bȉo je graničio2	bíli smo graničili2	bíli ste graničili2	bíli su graničili2
	Imperfect	graničah	graničaše	graničaše	graničasmo	graničaste	graničahu
Conditional I		graničio bih2	graničio bi2	graničio bi2	graničili bismo2	graničili biste2	graničili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih graničio2	bȉo bi graničio2	bȉo bi graničio2	bíli bismo graničili2	bíli biste graničili2	bíli bi graničili2
Imperative		—	graniči	—	graničimo	graničite	—
Active past participle		graničio m / graničila f / graničilo n			graničili m / graničile f / graničila 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

• ogràničiti

References

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