kotiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kotiti.[1] First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǒtiti/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧ti‧ti

Verb

kòtiti impf (Cyrillic spelling ко̀тити)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to bear, to bring forth (of animals)
  2. (reflexive, figuratively) to multiply

Conjugation

Conjugation of kotiti
Infinitive: kotiti Present verbal adverb: kòtēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: kòćēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present kotim kotiš koti kotimo kotite kote
Future Future I kotit ću1
kotiću 		kotit ćeš1
kotićeš 		kotit će1
kotiće 		kotit ćemo1
kotićemo 		kotit ćete1
kotićete 		kotit će1
kotiće
Future II bȕdēm kotio2 bȕdēš kotio2 bȕdē kotio2 bȕdēmo kotili2 bȕdēte kotili2 bȕdū kotili2
Past Perfect kotio sam2 kotio si2 kotio je2 kotili smo2 kotili ste2 kotili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kotio2 bȉo si kotio2 bȉo je kotio2 bíli smo kotili2 bíli ste kotili2 bíli su kotili2
Imperfect koćah koćaše koćaše koćasmo koćaste koćahu
Conditional I kotio bih2 kotio bi2 kotio bi2 kotili bismo2 kotili biste2 kotili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kotio2 bȉo bi kotio2 bȉo bi kotio2 bíli bismo kotili2 bíli biste kotili2 bíli bi kotili2
Imperative — koti — kotimo kotite —
Active past participle kotio m / kotila f / kotilo n kotili m / kotile f / kotila 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

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kotiti”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 488
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