ponositi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ponos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ponǒsiti/
• Hyphenation: po‧no‧si‧ti

Verb

ponòsiti impf (Cyrillic spelling поно̀сити)

1. (reflexive, with instrumental) to be proud, pride oneself on

Conjugation

Conjugation of ponositi

Infinitive: ponositi		Present verbal adverb: ponòsēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pònošēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ponosim	ponosiš	ponosi	ponosimo	ponosite	ponose
Future	Future I	ponosit ću1 ponosiću	ponosit ćeš1 ponosićeš	ponosit će1 ponosiće	ponosit ćemo1 ponosićemo	ponosit ćete1 ponosićete	ponosit će1 ponosiće
	Future II	bȕdēm ponosio2	bȕdēš ponosio2	bȕdē ponosio2	bȕdēmo ponosili2	bȕdēte ponosili2	bȕdū ponosili2
Past	Perfect	ponosio sam2	ponosio si2	ponosio je2	ponosili smo2	ponosili ste2	ponosili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ponosio2	bȉo si ponosio2	bȉo je ponosio2	bíli smo ponosili2	bíli ste ponosili2	bíli su ponosili2
	Imperfect	ponošah	ponošaše	ponošaše	ponošasmo	ponošaste	ponošahu
Conditional I		ponosio bih2	ponosio bi2	ponosio bi2	ponosili bismo2	ponosili biste2	ponosili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ponosio2	bȉo bi ponosio2	bȉo bi ponosio2	bíli bismo ponosili2	bíli biste ponosili2	bíli bi ponosili2
Imperative		—	ponosi	—	ponosimo	ponosite	—
Active past participle		ponosio m / ponosila f / ponosilo n			ponosili m / ponosile f / ponosila 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

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