mahnuti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maxnǫti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǎːxnuti/
  • Hyphenation: mah‧nu‧ti

Verb

máhnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling ма́хнути)

  1. (intransitive, with dative) to wave (with arm, tail, wing etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mahnuti
Infinitive: mahnuti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: máhnūvši 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 mahnem mahneš mahne mahnemo mahnete mahnu
Future Future I mahnut ću1
mahnuću 		mahnut ćeš1
mahnućeš 		mahnut će1
mahnuće 		mahnut ćemo1
mahnućemo 		mahnut ćete1
mahnućete 		mahnut će1
mahnuće
Future II bȕdēm mahnuo2 bȕdēš mahnuo2 bȕdē mahnuo2 bȕdēmo mahnuli2 bȕdēte mahnuli2 bȕdū mahnuli2
Past Perfect mahnuo sam2 mahnuo si2 mahnuo je2 mahnuli smo2 mahnuli ste2 mahnuli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam mahnuo2 bȉo si mahnuo2 bȉo je mahnuo2 bíli smo mahnuli2 bíli ste mahnuli2 bíli su mahnuli2
Aorist mahnuh mahnu mahnu mahnusmo mahnuste mahnuše
Conditional I mahnuo bih2 mahnuo bi2 mahnuo bi2 mahnuli bismo2 mahnuli biste2 mahnuli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih mahnuo2 bȉo bi mahnuo2 bȉo bi mahnuo2 bíli bismo mahnuli2 bíli biste mahnuli2 bíli bi mahnuli2
Imperative — mahni — mahnimo mahnite —
Active past participle mahnuo m / mahnula f / mahnulo n mahnuli m / mahnule f / mahnula 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

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