kupilo

Kupilo is the neuter singular past participle form of the verb kupiti, meaning "to buy," in several South Slavic languages such as Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Slovenian. It is used to mark completed action in the perfective aspect and can function as a predicative adjective when referring to a neuter subject, or as part of a compound tense with an auxiliary verb.

In these languages, kupiti is a transitive verb meaning to purchase something. Its past participle has gender and number agreement: kupio (masculine), kupila (feminine), and kupilo (neuter). The neuter form kupilo is typically used when the subject is neuter, for example in sentences like Oko kupilo novu haljinu, where the subject is neutral and the object is a feminine noun.

Etymology traces kupiti and kupilo to the Slavic verb root associated with buying, with cognates appearing across Slavic languages. The neuter participle form kupilo is formed with the -ilo ending that is common for neuter past participles in these languages.

Usage notes:

- Kupilo appears in contexts describing a completed purchase by a neuter subject, often in the past tense with an auxiliary or as part of a periphrastic construction.

- It contrasts with kupio (masculine) and kupila (feminine), which agree with masculine or feminine subjects respectively.

See also: kupiti, past participles in South Slavic languages.