leniti

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Italian

Participle

leniti m pl

  1. masculine plural of lenito

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

lēnītī

  1. inflection of lēnītus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lȇn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lěːniti/
  • Hyphenation: le‧ni‧ti

Verb

léniti impf (Cyrillic spelling ле́нити)

  1. (reflexive) to become (more) lazy

Conjugation

Conjugation of leniti
Infinitive: leniti Present verbal adverb: lénēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: lénjēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present lenim leniš leni lenimo lenite lene
Future Future I lenit ću1
leniću 		lenit ćeš1
lenićeš 		lenit će1
leniće 		lenit ćemo1
lenićemo 		lenit ćete1
lenićete 		lenit će1
leniće
Future II bȕdēm lenio2 bȕdēš lenio2 bȕdē lenio2 bȕdēmo lenili2 bȕdēte lenili2 bȕdū lenili2
Past Perfect lenio sam2 lenio si2 lenio je2 lenili smo2 lenili ste2 lenili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam lenio2 bȉo si lenio2 bȉo je lenio2 bíli smo lenili2 bíli ste lenili2 bíli su lenili2
Imperfect lenjah lenjaše lenjaše lenjasmo lenjaste lenjahu
Conditional I lenio bih2 lenio bi2 lenio bi2 lenili bismo2 lenili biste2 lenili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih lenio2 bȉo bi lenio2 bȉo bi lenio2 bíli bismo lenili2 bíli biste lenili2 bíli bi lenili2
Imperative — leni — lenimo lenite —
Active past participle lenio m / lenila f / lenilo n lenili m / lenile f / lenila 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.

References

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