This is one more form of the past tense. This tense is used rarely, but it is used.
The aorist expresses a short or just-finished action in the past.
Aorist is always formed only from a perfective verb.
Let’s conjugate the verb OTKUCATI – to type.
One must only replace –TI by appropriate ending:
| Ja otkucah
Ti otkuca On, ona otkuca Mi otkucasmo Vi otkucaste Oni otkucaše |
I (have just) typed
You (have just) typed He, she (has just) typed We (have just) typed You (have just) typed They (have just) typed |
Notice, that conjugations with Ti and On, ona have zero endings, i.e. cut off –ti.
Also, the Aorist is replaceable. One can use standard past tense instead of Aorist, and Aorist is really used rarely so that you maybe even won’t hear it anywhere, but it is worth knowing it. For example:
Upravo sam napisao poruku = Upravo napisah poruku – I have just written a message
Examples
Dođosmo odatle odmah – We just came from there (doći – to come, aorist stem DOĐ-)
Da li završi telefonski poziv? – Have you finished the phone call?
Oni upravo pokušaše da me pozovu – They have just tried to call me
Šta mu rekoste? – What have you told him?
Ovi ljudi me upravo upitaše gde je ta ulica – These people have just asked me where that street is
To je to, odoh kući – That’s is, I go home