grliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

See gȑlo (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡr̂liti/
• Hyphenation: gr‧li‧ti

Verb

gȑliti impf (Cyrillic spelling гр̏лити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to hug
2. (transitive) to embrace

Conjugation

Conjugation of grliti

Infinitive: grliti		Present verbal adverb: gȑlēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: gȑljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		grlim	grliš	grli	grlimo	grlite	grle
Future	Future I	grlit ću1 grliću	grlit ćeš1 grlićeš	grlit će1 grliće	grlit ćemo1 grlićemo	grlit ćete1 grlićete	grlit će1 grliće
	Future II	bȕdēm grlio2	bȕdēš grlio2	bȕdē grlio2	bȕdēmo grlili2	bȕdēte grlili2	bȕdū grlili2
Past	Perfect	grlio sam2	grlio si2	grlio je2	grlili smo2	grlili ste2	grlili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam grlio2	bȉo si grlio2	bȉo je grlio2	bíli smo grlili2	bíli ste grlili2	bíli su grlili2
	Imperfect	grljah	grljaše	grljaše	grljasmo	grljaste	grljahu
Conditional I		grlio bih2	grlio bi2	grlio bi2	grlili bismo2	grlili biste2	grlili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih grlio2	bȉo bi grlio2	bȉo bi grlio2	bíli bismo grlili2	bíli biste grlili2	bíli bi grlili2
Imperative		—	grli	—	grlimo	grlite	—
Active past participle		grlio m / grlila f / grlilo n			grlili m / grlile f / grlila n
Passive past participle		grljen m / grljena f / grljeno n			grljeni m / grljene f / grljena 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

• òbgrliti
• ògrliti
• ogrlica
• prìgrliti
• zàgrliti

Further reading

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