pokrstiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ krstiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pokřstiti/
• Hyphenation: po‧kr‧sti‧ti

Verb

pokr̀stiti pf (Cyrillic spelling покр̀стити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to Christianize

Conjugation

Conjugation of pokrstiti

Infinitive: pokrstiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pokr̀stīvši		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		pokrstim	pokrstiš	pokrsti	pokrstimo	pokrstite	pokrste
Future	Future I	pokrstit ću1 pokrstiću	pokrstit ćeš1 pokrstićeš	pokrstit će1 pokrstiće	pokrstit ćemo1 pokrstićemo	pokrstit ćete1 pokrstićete	pokrstit će1 pokrstiće
	Future II	bȕdēm pokrstio2	bȕdēš pokrstio2	bȕdē pokrstio2	bȕdēmo pokrstili2	bȕdēte pokrstili2	bȕdū pokrstili2
Past	Perfect	pokrstio sam2	pokrstio si2	pokrstio je2	pokrstili smo2	pokrstili ste2	pokrstili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pokrstio2	bȉo si pokrstio2	bȉo je pokrstio2	bíli smo pokrstili2	bíli ste pokrstili2	bíli su pokrstili2
	Aorist	pokrstih	pokrsti	pokrsti	pokrstismo	pokrstiste	pokrstiše
Conditional I		pokrstio bih2	pokrstio bi2	pokrstio bi2	pokrstili bismo2	pokrstili biste2	pokrstili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pokrstio2	bȉo bi pokrstio2	bȉo bi pokrstio2	bíli bismo pokrstili2	bíli biste pokrstili2	bíli bi pokrstili2
Imperative		—	pokrsti	—	pokrstimo	pokrstite	—
Active past participle		pokrstio m / pokrstila f / pokrstilo n			pokrstili m / pokrstile f / pokrstila n
Passive past participle		pokršten m / pokrštena f / pokršteno n			pokršteni m / pokrštene f / pokrštena 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

• pokrštávati impf

Further reading

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