počinjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒt͡ʃiɲati/
• Hyphenation: po‧či‧nja‧ti

Verb

pòčinjati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀чињати)

1. (intransitive) to begin, start, commence

Conjugation

Conjugation of počinjati

Infinitive: počinjati		Present verbal adverb: pòčinjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pòčinjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		počinjem	počinješ	počinje	počinjemo	počinjete	počinju
Future	Future I	počinjat ću1 počinjaću	počinjat ćeš1 počinjaćeš	počinjat će1 počinjaće	počinjat ćemo1 počinjaćemo	počinjat ćete1 počinjaćete	počinjat će1 počinjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm počinjao2	bȕdēš počinjao2	bȕdē počinjao2	bȕdēmo počinjali2	bȕdēte počinjali2	bȕdū počinjali2
Past	Perfect	počinjao sam2	počinjao si2	počinjao je2	počinjali smo2	počinjali ste2	počinjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam počinjao2	bȉo si počinjao2	bȉo je počinjao2	bíli smo počinjali2	bíli ste počinjali2	bíli su počinjali2
	Imperfect	počinjah	počinjaše	počinjaše	počinjasmo	počinjaste	počinjahu
Conditional I		počinjao bih2	počinjao bi2	počinjao bi2	počinjali bismo2	počinjali biste2	počinjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih počinjao2	bȉo bi počinjao2	bȉo bi počinjao2	bíli bismo počinjali2	bíli biste počinjali2	bíli bi počinjali2
Imperative		—	počinji	—	počinjimo	počinjite	—
Active past participle		počinjao m / počinjala f / počinjalo n			počinjali m / počinjale f / počinjala n
Passive past participle		počinjan m / počinjana f / počinjano n			počinjani m / počinjane f / počinjana 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

• pòčēti pf

Further reading

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