krstiti

See also: krstíti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krьstiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /křstiti/
• Hyphenation: kr‧sti‧ti

Verb

kr̀stiti impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling кр̀стити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to baptize, christen
2. (transitive) to name (especially while christening), give a nickname
3. (reflexive, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia) to cross oneself (make the sign of the cross)

Conjugation

Conjugation of krstiti

Infinitive: krstiti		Present verbal adverb: kr̀stēći		Past verbal adverb: kr̀stīvši		Verbal noun: kr̀štēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		krstim	krstiš	krsti	krstimo	krstite	krste
Future	Future I	krstit ću1 krstiću	krstit ćeš1 krstićeš	krstit će1 krstiće	krstit ćemo1 krstićemo	krstit ćete1 krstićete	krstit će1 krstiće
	Future II	bȕdēm krstio2	bȕdēš krstio2	bȕdē krstio2	bȕdēmo krstili2	bȕdēte krstili2	bȕdū krstili2
Past	Perfect	krstio sam2	krstio si2	krstio je2	krstili smo2	krstili ste2	krstili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam krstio2	bȉo si krstio2	bȉo je krstio2	bíli smo krstili2	bíli ste krstili2	bíli su krstili2
	Aorist	krstih	krsti	krsti	krstismo	krstiste	krstiše
	Imperfect	kršćah	kršćaše	kršćaše	kršćasmo	kršćaste	kršćahu
Conditional I		krstio bih2	krstio bi2	krstio bi2	krstili bismo2	krstili biste2	krstili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih krstio2	bȉo bi krstio2	bȉo bi krstio2	bíli bismo krstili2	bíli biste krstili2	bíli bi krstili2
Imperative		—	krsti	—	krstimo	krstite	—
Active past participle		krstio m / krstila f / krstilo n			krstili m / krstile f / krstila n
Passive past participle		kršten m / krštena f / kršteno n			kršteni m / krštene f / krštena 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

• iskr̀stiti
• okr̀stiti
• pokr̀stiti
• prekr̀stiti
• raskr̀stiti
• skr̀stiti
• ukr̀stiti

Further reading

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