brusiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *brusiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brǔːsiti/
• Hyphenation: bru‧si‧ti

Verb

brúsiti impf (Cyrillic spelling бру́сити)

1. (transitive) to whet, sharpen (blade of something)
2. (transitive) to glaze, polish (surface of something, such as parquet)

Conjugation

Conjugation of brusiti

Infinitive: brusiti		Present verbal adverb: brúsēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: brúšēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		brusim	brusiš	brusi	brusimo	brusite	bruse
Future	Future I	brusit ću1 brusiću	brusit ćeš1 brusićeš	brusit će1 brusiće	brusit ćemo1 brusićemo	brusit ćete1 brusićete	brusit će1 brusiće
	Future II	bȕdēm brusio2	bȕdēš brusio2	bȕdē brusio2	bȕdēmo brusili2	bȕdēte brusili2	bȕdū brusili2
Past	Perfect	brusio sam2	brusio si2	brusio je2	brusili smo2	brusili ste2	brusili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam brusio2	bȉo si brusio2	bȉo je brusio2	bíli smo brusili2	bíli ste brusili2	bíli su brusili2
	Imperfect	brušah	brušaše	brušaše	brušasmo	brušaste	brušahu
Conditional I		brusio bih2	brusio bi2	brusio bi2	brusili bismo2	brusili biste2	brusili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih brusio2	bȉo bi brusio2	bȉo bi brusio2	bíli bismo brusili2	bíli biste brusili2	bíli bi brusili2
Imperative		—	brusi	—	brusimo	brusite	—
Active past participle		brusio m / brusila f / brusilo n			brusili m / brusile f / brusila n
Passive past participle		brušen m / brušena f / brušeno n			brušeni m / brušene f / brušena 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

• “brusiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025