čehati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čexati.

Pronunciation

Verb

čèhati impf (Cyrillic spelling чѐхати)

  1. to tear off, to rip off

Conjugation

Conjugation of čehati
Infinitive: čehati Present verbal adverb: čèhajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: čèhānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present čèhām čehaš čeha čehamo čehate čehaju
Future Future I čehat ću1
čehaću 		čehat ćeš1
čehaćeš 		čehat će1
čehaće 		čehat ćemo1
čehaćemo 		čehat ćete1
čehaćete 		čehat će1
čehaće
Future II bȕdēm čehao2 bȕdēš čehao2 bȕdē čehao2 bȕdēmo čehali2 bȕdēte čehali2 bȕdū čehali2
Past Perfect čehao sam2 čehao si2 čehao je2 čehali smo2 čehali ste2 čehali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam čehao2 bȉo si čehao2 bȉo je čehao2 bíli smo čehali2 bíli ste čehali2 bíli su čehali2
Imperfect čehah čehaše čehaše čehasmo čehaste čehahu
Conditional I čehao bih2 čehao bi2 čehao bi2 čehali bismo2 čehali biste2 čehali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih čehao2 bȉo bi čehao2 bȉo bi čehao2 bíli bismo čehali2 bíli biste čehali2 bíli bi čehali2
Imperative — čehaj — čehajmo čehajte —
Active past participle čehao m / čehala f / čehalo n čehali m / čehale f / čehala n
Passive past participle čehan m / čehana f / čehano n čehani m / čehane f / čehana n
1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.
2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively.
3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.

4   Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.
  *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

References

  • “čehati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • “čehati”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 6, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1976, published 1990, page 873
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