gnjiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gňiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɲîːti/
  • Hyphenation: gnji‧ti

Verb

gnjȋti impf (Cyrillic spelling гњи̑ти)

  1. (intransitive, rare, Croatia) to rot, decay
    Synonym: truliti

Conjugation

Conjugation of gnjiti
Infinitive: gnjiti Present verbal adverb: gnjȉjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: gnjȉjēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present gnjijem gnjiješ gnjije gnjijemo gnjijete gnjiju
Future Future I gnjit ću1
gnjiću 		gnjit ćeš1
gnjićeš 		gnjit će1
gnjiće 		gnjit ćemo1
gnjićemo 		gnjit ćete1
gnjićete 		gnjit će1
gnjiće
Future II bȕdēm gnjio2 bȕdēš gnjio2 bȕdē gnjio2 bȕdēmo gnjili2 bȕdēte gnjili2 bȕdū gnjili2
Past Perfect gnjio sam2 gnjio si2 gnjio je2 gnjili smo2 gnjili ste2 gnjili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam gnjio2 bȉo si gnjio2 bȉo je gnjio2 bíli smo gnjili2 bíli ste gnjili2 bíli su gnjili2
Imperfect gnjijah gnjijaše gnjijaše gnjijasmo gnjijaste gnjijahu
Conditional I gnjio bih2 gnjio bi2 gnjio bi2 gnjili bismo2 gnjili biste2 gnjili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih gnjio2 bȉo bi gnjio2 bȉo bi gnjio2 bíli bismo gnjili2 bíli biste gnjili2 bíli bi gnjili2
Imperative — gnjij — gnjijmo gnjijte —
Active past participle gnjio m / gnjila f / gnjilo n gnjili m / gnjile f / gnjila 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.

Further reading

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