oporicati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /opǒrit͡sati/
• Hyphenation: o‧po‧ri‧ca‧ti

Verb

opòricati impf (Cyrillic spelling опо̀рицати)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of oporicati

Infinitive: oporicati		Present verbal adverb: opòričūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: opòricānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		oporičem	oporičeš	oporiče	oporičemo	oporičete	oporiču
Future	Future I	oporicat ću1 oporicaću	oporicat ćeš1 oporicaćeš	oporicat će1 oporicaće	oporicat ćemo1 oporicaćemo	oporicat ćete1 oporicaćete	oporicat će1 oporicaće
	Future II	bȕdēm oporicao2	bȕdēš oporicao2	bȕdē oporicao2	bȕdēmo oporicali2	bȕdēte oporicali2	bȕdū oporicali2
Past	Perfect	oporicao sam2	oporicao si2	oporicao je2	oporicali smo2	oporicali ste2	oporicali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam oporicao2	bȉo si oporicao2	bȉo je oporicao2	bíli smo oporicali2	bíli ste oporicali2	bíli su oporicali2
	Imperfect	oporicah	oporicaše	oporicaše	oporicasmo	oporicaste	oporicahu
Conditional I		oporicao bih2	oporicao bi2	oporicao bi2	oporicali bismo2	oporicali biste2	oporicali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih oporicao2	bȉo bi oporicao2	bȉo bi oporicao2	bíli bismo oporicali2	bíli biste oporicali2	bíli bi oporicali2
Imperative		—	oporiči	—	oporičimo	oporičite	—
Active past participle		oporicao m / oporicala f / oporicalo n			oporicali m / oporicale f / oporicala n
Passive past participle		oporican m / oporicana f / oporicano n			oporicani m / oporicane f / oporicana 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

• opòreći pf