The aorist in the Croatian language is used mainly to express actions, states, or events in the past, and so aorist is mainly formed from perfective verbs. In the past, croatian aorist could be formed from both perfective and imperfective verbs. When it was formed from imperfective verbs, it had the semantic dimension of «determined imperfectiveness», since it was used to indicate an action of limited length (Hercigonja 1983). Aorist has disappeared from many modern Croatian dialects, and its usage in the modern Croatian standard language is limited and often stylistic, although it has been noted that it has returned to use in some communicational situations (text messaging). Modern Croatian grammars register its relative usage (e.g. Katičić 1991; Barić et al. 1995; Raguž 1997, Silić,  Pranjković 2005), and explain how aorist is also used for «recent actions and for imminent and planned future actions», or «in recent past and immediate future contexts» (Stanojević-Geld 2011). In Croatian language in the past, aorist was also used to express future action, e. g. «Ako se izbavih ja muk ovih, tu ću t’ želju ja odneti» (Hektorović 1568). The usage of aorist in conditional sentences is especially apparent, and has been noted by some researchers to date (Zima, Malić). Some research points to this type of usage in some Štokavian dialects (Pavlović 2006), however examples from old Croatian texts confirm that this usage also existed in Čakavian sources.