menjati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /měːɲati/
  • Hyphenation: me‧nja‧ti

Verb

ménjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ме́њати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to change
  2. (transitive) to exchange
  3. (transitive, grammar) to inflect
  4. (intransitive, reflexive) to exchange with

Conjugation

Conjugation of menjati
Infinitive: menjati Present verbal adverb: ménjajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: ménjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present menjam menjaš menja menjamo menjate menjaju
Future Future I menjat ću1
menjaću 		menjat ćeš1
menjaćeš 		menjat će1
menjaće 		menjat ćemo1
menjaćemo 		menjat ćete1
menjaćete 		menjat će1
menjaće
Future II bȕdēm menjao2 bȕdēš menjao2 bȕdē menjao2 bȕdēmo menjali2 bȕdēte menjali2 bȕdū menjali2
Past Perfect menjao sam2 menjao si2 menjao je2 menjali smo2 menjali ste2 menjali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam menjao2 bȉo si menjao2 bȉo je menjao2 bíli smo menjali2 bíli ste menjali2 bíli su menjali2
Imperfect menjah menjaše menjaše menjasmo menjaste menjahu
Conditional I menjao bih2 menjao bi2 menjao bi2 menjali bismo2 menjali biste2 menjali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih menjao2 bȉo bi menjao2 bȉo bi menjao2 bíli bismo menjali2 bíli biste menjali2 bíli bi menjali2
Imperative — menjaj — menjajmo menjajte —
Active past participle menjao m / menjala f / menjalo n menjali m / menjale f / menjala n
Passive past participle menjan m / menjana f / menjano n menjani m / menjane f / menjana 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.

Slovene

Etymology

From menīti +‎ -ati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mèːnjati/, /mɛnjàːti/

Verb

mẹ́njati or menjáti pf

  1. to exchange
  2. to swap

Inflection

-ati -am (AP b or acute)
infinitive mẹ́njati, menjáti
1st singular mẹ́njam
infinitive mẹ́njati, menjáti menjat
supine mẹ́njat
verbal noun mẹ́njanje
participle converb
present menjajọ́č menjȃje
past mẹ́njan —
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular mẹ́njał menjȃla, mẹ́njala menjálo, mẹ́njalo
dual menjála, mẹ́njala menjáli, mẹ́njali menjáli, mẹ́njali
plural menjáli, mẹ́njali menjále, mẹ́njale menjála, mẹ́njala
present imperative
1st singular mẹ́njam —
2nd singular mẹ́njaš mẹ́njaj
3rd singular mẹ́nja —
1st dual mẹ́njava mẹ́njajva, menjȃjva
2nd dual mẹ́njata mẹ́njajta, menjȃjta
3rd dual mẹ́njata —
1st plural mẹ́njamo mẹ́njajmo, menjȃjmo
2nd plural mẹ́njate mẹ́njajte, menjȃjte
3rd plural mẹ́njajo —

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “menjati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “menjati”, in Termania, Amebis
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