položiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *položiti. Compare Czech položit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /polǒʒiti/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo‧ži‧ti

Verb

polòžiti pf (Cyrillic spelling поло̀жити)

1. (transitive) to lay, put, place
2. (transitive) to take or pass an examination
3. (transitive) to lay down (weapons)
4. (transitive) to deposit (money)

Conjugation

Conjugation of položiti

infinitive		položiti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		polòžīvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		položim	položiš	položi	položimo	položite	polože
future	future I	položit ću1 položiću	položit ćeš1 položićeš	položit će1 položiće	položit ćemo1 položićemo	položit ćete1 položićete	položit ćē1 položiće
	future II	bȕdēm položio2	bȕdēš položio2	bȕdē položio2	bȕdēmo položili2	bȕdēte položili2	bȕdū položili2
past	perfect	položio sam2	položio si2	položio je2	položili smo2	položili ste2	položili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam položio2	bȉo si položio2	bȉo je položio2	bíli smo položili2	bíli ste položili2	bíli su položili2
	aorist	položih	položi	položi	položismo	položiste	položiše
conditional	conditional I	položio bih2	položio bi2	položio bi2	položili bismo2	položili biste2	položili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih položio2	bȉo bi položio2	bȉo bi položio2	bíli bismo položili2	bíli biste položili2	bíli bi položili2
imperative		—	položi	—	položimo	položite	—
active past participle		položio m / položila f / položilo n			položili m / položile f / položila n
passive past participle		položen m / položena f / položeno n			položeni m / položene f / položena 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

• polágati impf
• ložiti

References

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