pokvariti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ kvariti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pokʋǎːriti/
• Hyphenation: pok‧va‧ri‧ti

Verb

pokváriti pf (Cyrillic spelling поква́рити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to damage, ruin
2. (transitive, reflexive) to spoil, rot, go bad
3. (transitive, reflexive) to pervert, corrupt
4. (transitive) to upset, ruin (stomach)
5. (reflexive) to change for the worse
6. (reflexive) to break down (of a machine)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pokvariti

Infinitive: pokvariti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pokvárīvši		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		pokvarim	pokvariš	pokvari	pokvarimo	pokvarite	pokvare
Future	Future I	pokvarit ću1 pokvariću	pokvarit ćeš1 pokvarićeš	pokvarit će1 pokvariće	pokvarit ćemo1 pokvarićemo	pokvarit ćete1 pokvarićete	pokvarit će1 pokvariće
	Future II	bȕdēm pokvario2	bȕdēš pokvario2	bȕdē pokvario2	bȕdēmo pokvarili2	bȕdēte pokvarili2	bȕdū pokvarili2
Past	Perfect	pokvario sam2	pokvario si2	pokvario je2	pokvarili smo2	pokvarili ste2	pokvarili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pokvario2	bȉo si pokvario2	bȉo je pokvario2	bíli smo pokvarili2	bíli ste pokvarili2	bíli su pokvarili2
	Aorist	pokvarih	pokvari	pokvari	pokvarismo	pokvariste	pokvariše
Conditional I		pokvario bih2	pokvario bi2	pokvario bi2	pokvarili bismo2	pokvarili biste2	pokvarili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pokvario2	bȉo bi pokvario2	bȉo bi pokvario2	bíli bismo pokvarili2	bíli biste pokvarili2	bíli bi pokvarili2
Imperative		—	pokvari	—	pokvarimo	pokvarite	—
Active past participle		pokvario m / pokvarila f / pokvarilo n			pokvarili m / pokvarile f / pokvarila n
Passive past participle		pokvaren m / pokvarena f / pokvareno n			pokvareni m / pokvarene f / pokvarena 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.

Further reading

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