kurčiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From kȕrac + -iti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kûːrt͡ʃiti/
• Hyphenation: kur‧či‧ti

Verb

kȗrčiti impf (Cyrillic spelling ку̑рчити)

1. (vulgar, reflexive) to boast, brag, show off

   Synonym: ràzmetati

Conjugation

Conjugation of kurčiti

Infinitive: kurčiti		Present verbal adverb: kȗrčēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kȗrčēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kurčim	kurčiš	kurči	kurčimo	kurčite	kurče
Future	Future I	kurčit ću1 kurčiću	kurčit ćeš1 kurčićeš	kurčit će1 kurčiće	kurčit ćemo1 kurčićemo	kurčit ćete1 kurčićete	kurčit će1 kurčiće
	Future II	bȕdēm kurčio2	bȕdēš kurčio2	bȕdē kurčio2	bȕdēmo kurčili2	bȕdēte kurčili2	bȕdū kurčili2
Past	Perfect	kurčio sam2	kurčio si2	kurčio je2	kurčili smo2	kurčili ste2	kurčili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kurčio2	bȉo si kurčio2	bȉo je kurčio2	bíli smo kurčili2	bíli ste kurčili2	bíli su kurčili2
	Imperfect	kurčah	kurčaše	kurčaše	kurčasmo	kurčaste	kurčahu
Conditional I		kurčio bih2	kurčio bi2	kurčio bi2	kurčili bismo2	kurčili biste2	kurčili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kurčio2	bȉo bi kurčio2	bȉo bi kurčio2	bíli bismo kurčili2	bíli biste kurčili2	bíli bi kurčili2
Imperative		—	kurči	—	kurčimo	kurčite	—
Active past participle		kurčio m / kurčila f / kurčilo n			kurčili m / kurčile f / kurčila 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

• kȕrac

Further reading

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