kajati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kajati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kâjati/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ja‧ti

Verb

kȁjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ка̏јати)

  1. (reflexive) to repent, regret, be sorry for
    Synonym: (Croatia) boliti

Conjugation

Conjugation of kajati
Infinitive: kajati Present verbal adverb: kȁjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: kȁjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present kajem kaješ kaje kajemo kajete kaju
Future Future I kajat ću1
kajaću 		kajat ćeš1
kajaćeš 		kajat će1
kajaće 		kajat ćemo1
kajaćemo 		kajat ćete1
kajaćete 		kajat će1
kajaće
Future II bȕdēm kajao2 bȕdēš kajao2 bȕdē kajao2 bȕdēmo kajali2 bȕdēte kajali2 bȕdū kajali2
Past Perfect kajao sam2 kajao si2 kajao je2 kajali smo2 kajali ste2 kajali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kajao2 bȉo si kajao2 bȉo je kajao2 bíli smo kajali2 bíli ste kajali2 bíli su kajali2
Imperfect kajah kajaše kajaše kajasmo kajaste kajahu
Conditional I kajao bih2 kajao bi2 kajao bi2 kajali bismo2 kajali biste2 kajali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kajao2 bȉo bi kajao2 bȉo bi kajao2 bíli bismo kajali2 bíli biste kajali2 bíli bi kajali2
Imperative — kaj — kajmo kajte —
Active past participle kajao m / kajala f / kajalo n kajali m / kajale f / kajala 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

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