mislio

Mislio is the masculine singular past tense form of the Serbo-Croatian verb misliti (to think). It functions as the past participle of misliti and is used with auxiliary verbs to express completed actions in the past. The corresponding forms for gender and number are mislila (feminine singular), mislilo (neuter singular), misljili (masculine plural in some variants), and mislig?i (feminine plural in some forms) depending on dialect; standard forms in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are mislijo? Actually, the common standard are mislio (masculine singular), mislila (feminine singular), mislilo (neuter singular), mislili (masculine plural), mislile (feminine plural), and mislila? su (they thought). The important point is that mislio agrees with the subject in gender and number.

In use, mislio is part of a compound past tense with auxiliary verbs such as sam, si, je, smo, ste, su. Examples: I thought = mislio sam; You thought = mislio si; They thought = mislili su. Negative forms appear as nisam mislio, nisi mislio, nisu mislili, and so on.

The word is primarily a verb form rather than a stand-alone noun. It is found across Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian, with minor dialectal variants in pronunciation and spelling. It can also appear in reported speech or narrative as the simple past meaning “thought” or “believed,” e.g., He thought that he could do it.

See also: misliti, misao, thought.