brinuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From brȉga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brînuti/
• Hyphenation: bri‧nu‧ti

Verb

brȉnuti impf (Cyrillic spelling бри̏нути)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to worry

   Brine me što ga ne vidim. ― It worries me that I can't see him.

2. (reflexive, locative) to care (with o)
3. (reflexive, locative) to take care (with o)

Conjugation

Conjugation of brinuti

Infinitive: brinuti		Present verbal adverb: brȉnūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		brinem	brineš	brine	brinemo	brinete	brinu
Future	Future I	brinut ću1 brinuću	brinut ćeš1 brinućeš	brinut će1 brinuće	brinut ćemo1 brinućemo	brinut ćete1 brinućete	brinut će1 brinuće
	Future II	bȕdēm brinuo2	bȕdēš brinuo2	bȕdē brinuo2	bȕdēmo brinuli2	bȕdēte brinuli2	bȕdū brinuli2
Past	Perfect	brinuo sam2	brinuo si2	brinuo je2	brinuli smo2	brinuli ste2	brinuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam brinuo2	bȉo si brinuo2	bȉo je brinuo2	bíli smo brinuli2	bíli ste brinuli2	bíli su brinuli2
	Imperfect	brinjah	brinjaše	brinjaše	brinjasmo	brinjaste	brinjahu
Conditional I		brinuo bih2	brinuo bi2	brinuo bi2	brinuli bismo2	brinuli biste2	brinuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih brinuo2	bȉo bi brinuo2	bȉo bi brinuo2	bíli bismo brinuli2	bíli biste brinuli2	bíli bi brinuli2
Imperative		—	brini	—	brinimo	brinite	—
Active past participle		brinuo m / brinula f / brinulo n			brinuli m / brinule f / brinula 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.

Derived terms

• pobrinuti
• prèbrinuti
• zàbrinuti
• zbrȉnuti

References

• “brinuti” in Hrvatski jezični portal