opisati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From o- +‎ pisati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /opǐːsati/
• Hyphenation: o‧pi‧sa‧ti

Verb

opísati pf (Cyrillic spelling опи́сати)

1. (transitive) to describe
2. (transitive, mathematics) to circumscribe
3. (transitive) to trace, describe (of a trajectory and similar)

Conjugation

Conjugation of opisati

Infinitive: opisati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: opísāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		opišem	opišeš	opiše	opišemo	opišete	opišu
Future	Future I	opisat ću1 opisaću	opisat ćeš1 opisaćeš	opisat će1 opisaće	opisat ćemo1 opisaćemo	opisat ćete1 opisaćete	opisat će1 opisaće
	Future II	bȕdēm opisao2	bȕdēš opisao2	bȕdē opisao2	bȕdēmo opisali2	bȕdēte opisali2	bȕdū opisali2
Past	Perfect	opisao sam2	opisao si2	opisao je2	opisali smo2	opisali ste2	opisali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam opisao2	bȉo si opisao2	bȉo je opisao2	bíli smo opisali2	bíli ste opisali2	bíli su opisali2
	Aorist	opisah	opisa	opisa	opisasmo	opisaste	opisaše
Conditional I		opisao bih2	opisao bi2	opisao bi2	opisali bismo2	opisali biste2	opisali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih opisao2	bȉo bi opisao2	bȉo bi opisao2	bíli bismo opisali2	bíli biste opisali2	bíli bi opisali2
Imperative		—	opiši	—	opišimo	opišite	—
Active past participle		opisao m / opisala f / opisalo n			opisali m / opisale f / opisala n
Passive past participle		opisan m / opisana f / opisano n			opisani m / opisane f / opisana 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

• opisívati impf

Further reading

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