kleknuti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

See klȅcati.

Pronunciation

Verb

klȅknuti pf (Cyrillic spelling кле̏кнути)

  1. (intransitive) to kneel

Conjugation

Conjugation of kleknuti
Infinitive: kleknuti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: klȅknūvši Verbal noun: —
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present kleknem klekneš klekne kleknemo kleknete kleknu
Future Future I kleknut ću1
kleknuću 		kleknut ćeš1
kleknućeš 		kleknut će1
kleknuće 		kleknut ćemo1
kleknućemo 		kleknut ćete1
kleknućete 		kleknut će1
kleknuće
Future II bȕdēm kleknuo/klekao2 bȕdēš kleknuo/klekao2 bȕdē kleknuo/klekao2 bȕdēmo kleknuli/klekli2 bȕdēte kleknuli/klekli2 bȕdū kleknuli/klekli2
Past Perfect kleknuo/klekao sam2 kleknuo/klekao si2 kleknuo/klekao je2 kleknuli/klekli smo2 kleknuli/klekli ste2 kleknuli/klekli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kleknuo/klekao2 bȉo si kleknuo/klekao2 bȉo je kleknuo/klekao2 bíli smo kleknuli/klekli2 bíli ste kleknuli/klekli2 bíli su kleknuli/klekli2
Aorist kleknuh / klekoh kleknu / kleče kleknu / kleče kleknusmo / klekosmo kleknuste / klekoste kleknuše / klekoše
Conditional I kleknuo/klekao bih2 kleknuo/klekao bi2 kleknuo/klekao bi2 kleknuli/klekli bismo2 kleknuli/klekli biste2 kleknuli/klekli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kleknuo/klekao2 bȉo bi kleknuo/klekao2 bȉo bi kleknuo/klekao2 bíli bismo kleknuli/klekli2 bíli biste kleknuli/klekli2 bíli bi kleknuli/klekli2
Imperative — klekni — kleknimo kleknite —
Active past participle kleknuo/klekao m / kleknula/klekla f / kleknulo/kleklo n kleknuli/klekli m / kleknule/klekle f / kleknula/klekla n
Passive past participle kleknut m / kleknuta f / kleknuto n kleknuti m / kleknute f / kleknuta 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

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