stvorili

Stvorili is the masculine plural past participle of the verb stvoriti in the South Slavic languages Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. It conveys the meaning “created” or “made” when used to describe subjects that are masculine plural, and it is commonly employed in compound past tenses with the auxiliary verb biti (to be). For example, in a sentence like Oni su stvorili novi plan, the phrase means “They created a new plan.”

Morphology and usage in these languages include related forms for different genders and numbers: stvorio (masculine singular), stvorila (feminine singular), stvorilo (neuter singular), and stvorile (feminine plural). The participle stvorili agrees with the subject in gender and number, while the auxiliary biti provides the past tense marking. Stvorili can function as part of a verbal phrase in narrative and descriptive prose.

Etymology and semantic realm: stvoriti is derived from a root associated with creation or becoming, related to the noun stvar (thing, matter) and the broader concept of making or bringing something into existence. The term and its related forms are widely used across the South Slavic languages to express the completion of a act of creation.

Translations and equivalents: in English, stvorili is usually rendered as “created” (masculine plural). The word is primarily a grammatical marker rather than a standalone lexical item, and its exact form depends on the subject’s gender and number.

See also: stvoriti, stvar, stvaranje.