dirati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dirati. Compare dèrati, drȁti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǐːrati/
• Hyphenation: di‧ra‧ti

Verb

dírati impf (Cyrillic spelling ди́рати)

1. (transitive) to touch
2. (transitive) to mess with someone

Conjugation

Conjugation of dirati

infinitive		dirati
present verbal adverb		dírajūćī
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		dírānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		diram	diraš	dira	diramo	dirate	diraju
future	future I	dirat ću1 diraću	dirat ćeš1 diraćeš	dirat će1 diraće	dirat ćemo1 diraćemo	dirat ćete1 diraćete	dirat ćе̄1 diraće
	future II	bȕdēm dirao2	bȕdēš dirao2	bȕdē dirao2	bȕdēmo dirali2	bȕdēte dirali2	bȕdū dirali2
past	perfect	dirao sam2	dirao si2	dirao je2	dirali smo2	dirali ste2	dirali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam dirao2	bȉo si dirao2	bȉo je dirao2	bíli smo dirali2	bíli ste dirali2	bíli su dirali2
	imperfect	dirah	diraše	diraše	dirasmo	diraste	dirahu
conditional	conditional I	dirao bih2	dirao bi2	dirao bi2	dirali bismo2	dirali biste2	dirali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih dirao2	bȉo bi dirao2	bȉo bi dirao2	bíli bismo dirali2	bíli biste dirali2	bíli bi dirali2
imperative		—	diraj	—	dirajmo	dirajte	—
active past participle		dirao m / dirala f / diralo n			dirali m / dirale f / dirala n
passive past participle		diran m / dirana f / dirano n			dirani m / dirane f / dirana 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

• dírnuti pf
• dodirnuti pf
• dodirívati impf
• taknuti pf
• tícati impf

Further reading

• “dirati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025