poslužiti
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Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]poslúžiti pf (Cyrillic spelling послу́жити)
- (transitive) to serve, be of use (guests, purpose etc.)
- Konobari će vas uskoro poslužiti. ― The waiters will serve you soon.
- Mogu ti posuditi svoju ako ti može poslužiti. ― I can lend you mine if it can be of use to you.
- (reflexive) to make use of, use, utilise
- Poslužite se svim sredstvima koja su vam na raspolaganju. ― Make use of all the resources available to you.
- (reflexive) to help oneself
- Hrana je na stolu, poslužite se! ― Food is on the table, help yourselves!
Conjugation
[edit]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
[edit]- poslužívati impf
Further reading
[edit]- “poslužiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026