pripisuje

Pripisuje is a present-tense, third-person singular form of a South Slavic verb meaning to attribute or to ascribe. It is used in Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian to describe the act of assigning a quality, action, responsibility, or guilt to someone or something. The form can appear with both imperfective and perfective stems, depending on the intended nuance of aspect.

Grammatically, pripisuje is a transitive verb. It typically takes a direct object that names what is being attributed and often a recipient or target in the dative or with a reflexive pronoun. For example, in practice one might say that a person or a source pripisuje some achievement or fault to another party. The sentence can be extended with phrases such as "pripisuje nečemu" (attributes to something) or "pripisuje nekomu" (attributes to someone).

Etymologically, pripisuje derives from the prefix pri- combined with the root pis- from pisati (to write), reflecting the historical sense of marking or recording an attribution. Over time the meaning broadened from a written attribution to general ascription or assignment of traits, actions, or guilt.

Usage notes and examples: In journalism and public discourse, pripisuje is commonly used to report that a source or statement is being attributed to someone. Examples include: "Novine pripisuju njegov uspjeh njegovom radu" (The newspapers attribute his success to his hard work). "On pripisuje krivicu zaposleniku" (He attributes the guilt to the employee). The sense can be clarified with explicit objects or with context to indicate to whom the attribute is being assigned.

See also: pripisati, pripisivanje, pripisivati.