poricati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /porǐːt͡sati/
Hyphenation: po‧ri‧ca‧ti

Verb

porícati impf (Cyrillic spelling пори́цати)

(transitive) to deny (assert that something is not true)
(transitive, intransitive) to retract, unsay (take back or withdraw something one has said)
(transitive) to disavow (refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; deny responsibility)
(transitive) to gainsay, contradict

Conjugation

Conjugation of poricati

Infinitive: poricati		Present verbal adverb: poríčūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: porícānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		poričem	poričeš	poriče	poričemo	poričete	poriču
Future	Future I	poricat ću¹ poricaću	poricat ćeš¹ poricaćeš	poricat će¹ poricaće	poricat ćemo¹ poricaćemo	poricat ćete¹ poricaćete	poricat će¹ poricaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm poricao²	bȕdēš poricao²	bȕdē poricao²	bȕdēmo poricali²	bȕdēte poricali²	bȕdū poricali²
Past	Perfect	poricao sam²	poricao si²	poricao je²	poricali smo²	poricali ste²	poricali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam poricao²	bȉo si poricao²	bȉo je poricao²	bíli smo poricali²	bíli ste poricali²	bíli su poricali²
	Imperfect	poricah	poricaše	poricaše	poricasmo	poricaste	poricahu
Conditional I		poricao bih²	poricao bi²	poricao bi²	poricali bismo²	poricali biste²	poricali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih poricao²	bȉo bi poricao²	bȉo bi poricao²	bíli bismo poricali²	bíli biste poricali²	bíli bi poricali²
Imperative		—	poriči	—	poričimo	poričite	—
Active past participle		poricao m / poricala f / poricalo n			poricali m / poricale f / poricala n
Passive past participle		porican m / poricana f / poricano n			poricani m / poricane f / poricana 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

pòreći pf