brijati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *briti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brîjati/
  • Hyphenation: bri‧ja‧ti

Verb

brȉjati impf (Cyrillic spelling бри̏јати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to shave
  2. (slang, regional, Croatia) to think
    Brijem da to nije točno. ― I don't think that's true
    Briješ? Brijem. ― You think so? Yeah I do.
  3. (slang) to make out with, to hook up with
    Poslije nastave su zabrijali. ― They made out after class
  4. (slang) to go on about something, be on about
    Ma dosadan je, stalno brije o tome da ga zapostavljam. ― He's boring, he keeps going on about how I'm neglecting him.

Conjugation

Conjugation of brijati
Infinitive: brijati Present verbal adverb: brȉjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: brȉjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present brijem briješ brije brijemo brijete briju
Future Future I brijat ću1
brijaću 		brijat ćeš1
brijaćeš 		brijat će1
brijaće 		brijat ćemo1
brijaćemo 		brijat ćete1
brijaćete 		brijat će1
brijaće
Future II bȕdēm brijao2 bȕdēš brijao2 bȕdē brijao2 bȕdēmo brijali2 bȕdēte brijali2 bȕdū brijali2
Past Perfect brijao sam2 brijao si2 brijao je2 brijali smo2 brijali ste2 brijali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam brijao2 bȉo si brijao2 bȉo je brijao2 bíli smo brijali2 bíli ste brijali2 bíli su brijali2
Imperfect brijah brijaše brijaše brijasmo brijaste brijahu
Conditional I brijao bih2 brijao bi2 brijao bi2 brijali bismo2 brijali biste2 brijali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih brijao2 bȉo bi brijao2 bȉo bi brijao2 bíli bismo brijali2 bíli biste brijali2 bíli bi brijali2
Imperative — brij — brijmo brijte —
Active past participle brijao m / brijala f / brijalo n brijali m / brijale f / brijala n
Passive past participle brijan m / brijana f / brijano n brijani m / brijane f / brijana 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

Further reading

  • “brijati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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