uzvisiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From uz- + vìsok (“tall”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /uzʋǐːsiti/
Hyphenation: uz‧vi‧si‧ti

Verb

uzvísiti pf (Cyrillic spelling узви́сити)

(transitive) to elevate, raise
(transitive) to give prominence or worth to something
(transitive) to laud, praise somebody
(reflexive) to stand out, distinguish oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of uzvisiti

Infinitive: uzvisiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: uzvísīvši		Verbal noun: uzvišénje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		uzvisim	uzvisiš	uzvisi	uzvisimo	uzvisite	uzvise
Future	Future I	uzvisit ću¹ uzvisiću	uzvisit ćeš¹ uzvisićeš	uzvisit će¹ uzvisiće	uzvisit ćemo¹ uzvisićemo	uzvisit ćete¹ uzvisićete	uzvisit će¹ uzvisiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm uzvisio²	bȕdēš uzvisio²	bȕdē uzvisio²	bȕdēmo uzvisili²	bȕdēte uzvisili²	bȕdū uzvisili²
Past	Perfect	uzvisio sam²	uzvisio si²	uzvisio je²	uzvisili smo²	uzvisili ste²	uzvisili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam uzvisio²	bȉo si uzvisio²	bȉo je uzvisio²	bíli smo uzvisili²	bíli ste uzvisili²	bíli su uzvisili²
	Aorist	uzvisih	uzvisi	uzvisi	uzvisismo	uzvisiste	uzvisiše
Conditional I		uzvisio bih²	uzvisio bi²	uzvisio bi²	uzvisili bismo²	uzvisili biste²	uzvisili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih uzvisio²	bȉo bi uzvisio²	bȉo bi uzvisio²	bíli bismo uzvisili²	bíli biste uzvisili²	bíli bi uzvisili²
Imperative		—	uzvisi	—	uzvisimo	uzvisite	—
Active past participle		uzvisio m / uzvisila f / uzvisilo n			uzvisili m / uzvisile f / uzvisila n
Passive past participle		uzvišen m / uzvišena f / uzvišeno n			uzvišeni m / uzvišene f / uzvišena 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

uzvisívati / uzvišávati impf

References

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