moći
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *moťi.
Alongside ht(j)eti, this is one of the only two Serbo-Croatian verbs to have a 1st person singular form ending in -u; "ja mogu" instead of *ja možem. This u-form is more common in other Slavic languages, such as Polish -ę, Russian -у (-u)), derived from Proto-Slavic *-ǫ. As a consequence, the 3rd person plural and 1st person singular share the same form mogu.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmȍći impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling мо̏ћи)
- (intransitive) can, to be able to
- (intransitive) may, might
Conjugation
editConjugation of moći
Infinitive: moći | Present verbal adverb: mȍgūći | Past verbal adverb: mȍgāvši | Verbal noun: — | ||||
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Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
Present | mogu (impf.) mognem (pf.) |
možeš (impf.) mogneš (pf.) |
može (impf.) mogne (pf.) |
možemo (impf.) mognemo (pf.) |
možete (impf.) mognete (pf.) |
mogu (impf.) mognu (pf.) | |
Future | Future I | moći ću | moći ćeš | moći će | moći ćemo | moći ćete | moći će |
Future II | bȕdēm mogao2 | bȕdēš mogao2 | bȕdē mogao2 | bȕdēmo mogli2 | bȕdēte mogli2 | bȕdū mogli2 | |
Past | Perfect | mogao sam2 | mogao si2 | mogao je2 | mogli smo2 | mogli ste2 | mogli su2 |
Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam mogao2 | bȉo si mogao2 | bȉo je mogao2 | bíli smo mogli2 | bíli ste mogli2 | bíli su mogli2 | |
Aorist | mogoh | može | može | mogosmo | mogoste | mogoše | |
Imperfect | mogah | mogaše | mogaše | mogasmo | mogaste | mogahu | |
Conditional I | mogao bih2 | mogao bi2 | mogao bi2 | mogli bismo2 | mogli biste2 | mogli bi2 | |
Conditional II4 | bȉo bih mogao2 | bȉo bi mogao2 | bȉo bi mogao2 | bíli bismo mogli2 | bíli biste mogli2 | bíli bi mogli2 | |
Imperative | — | mozi / mogni | — | mozimo / mognimo | mozite / mognite | — | |
Active past participle | mogao m / mogla f / moglo n | mogli m / mogle f / mogla n | |||||
Passive past participle | moguć m / moguća f / moguće n | mogući m / moguće f / moguća 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. |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- Pero Budmani, Tomislav Maretić, editor (1904–1910), “mòći”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 6, Zagreb: JAZU, page 883
- Vladimir Mažuranić (1908–1923) “moći”, in Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, page 675
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