potruditi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ truditi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /potrǔːditi/
• Hyphenation: pot‧ru‧di‧ti

Verb

potrúditi pf (Cyrillic spelling потру́дити)

1. (reflexive) to try, make an effort

Conjugation

Conjugation of potruditi

Infinitive: potruditi		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: potrúdīvši		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		potrudim	potrudiš	potrudi	potrudimo	potrudite	potrude
Future	Future I	potrudit ću1 potrudiću	potrudit ćeš1 potrudićeš	potrudit će1 potrudiće	potrudit ćemo1 potrudićemo	potrudit ćete1 potrudićete	potrudit će1 potrudiće
	Future II	bȕdēm potrudio2	bȕdēš potrudio2	bȕdē potrudio2	bȕdēmo potrudili2	bȕdēte potrudili2	bȕdū potrudili2
Past	Perfect	potrudio sam2	potrudio si2	potrudio je2	potrudili smo2	potrudili ste2	potrudili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam potrudio2	bȉo si potrudio2	bȉo je potrudio2	bíli smo potrudili2	bíli ste potrudili2	bíli su potrudili2
	Aorist	potrudih	potrudi	potrudi	potrudismo	potrudiste	potrudiše
Conditional I		potrudio bih2	potrudio bi2	potrudio bi2	potrudili bismo2	potrudili biste2	potrudili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih potrudio2	bȉo bi potrudio2	bȉo bi potrudio2	bíli bismo potrudili2	bíli biste potrudili2	bíli bi potrudili2
Imperative		—	potrudi	—	potrudimo	potrudite	—
Active past participle		potrudio m / potrudila f / potrudilo n			potrudili m / potrudile f / potrudila 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

• “potruditi”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024