postaviti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postaviti. Compare Czech postavit.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǒstaʋiti/
Hyphenation: po‧sta‧vi‧ti

Verb

pòstaviti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀ставити)

(transitive) to put, place, set
(transitive) to appoint, name

Conjugation

Conjugation of *postaviti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		postaviti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		pòstavīvši
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		postavim	postaviš	postavi	postavimo	postavite	postave
future	future I	postavit ću¹ postaviću	postavit ćeš¹ postavićeš	postavit će¹ postaviće	postavit ćemo¹ postavićemo	postavit ćete¹ postavićete	postavit ćē¹ postaviće
future	future II	bȕdēm postavio²	bȕdēš postavio²	bȕdē postavio²	bȕdēmo postavili²	bȕdēte postavili²	bȕdū postavili²
past	perfect	postavio sam²	postavio si²	postavio je²	postavili smo²	postavili ste²	postavili su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam postavio²	bȉo si postavio²	bȉo je postavio²	bíli smo postavili²	bíli ste postavili²	bíli su postavili²
	aorist	postavih	postavi	postavi	postavismo	postaviste	postaviše
conditional	conditional I	postavio bih²	postavio bi²	postavio bi²	postavili bismo²	postavili biste²	postavili bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih postavio²	bȉo bi postavio²	bȉo bi postavio²	bíli bismo postavili²	bíli biste postavili²	bíli bi postavili²
imperative		—	postavi	—	postavimo	postavite	—
active past participle		postavio m / postavila f / postavilo n			postavili m / postavile f / postavila n
passive past participle		postavljen m / postavljena f / postavljeno n			postavljeni m / postavljene f / postavljena 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

pòstavljati impf