smanjiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smǎːɲiti/
  • Hyphenation: sma‧nji‧ti

Verb

smánjiti pf (Cyrillic spelling сма́њити)

  1. (transitive) to reduce, lessen, make smaller (in size or volume, also figuratively)

Conjugation

Conjugation of smanjiti
Infinitive: smanjiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: smánjīvši Verbal noun: smanjénje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present smanjim smanjiš smanji smanjimo smanjite smanje
Future Future I smanjit ću1
smanjiću 		smanjit ćeš1
smanjićeš 		smanjit će1
smanjiće 		smanjit ćemo1
smanjićemo 		smanjit ćete1
smanjićete 		smanjit će1
smanjiće
Future II bȕdēm smanjio2 bȕdēš smanjio2 bȕdē smanjio2 bȕdēmo smanjili2 bȕdēte smanjili2 bȕdū smanjili2
Past Perfect smanjio sam2 smanjio si2 smanjio je2 smanjili smo2 smanjili ste2 smanjili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam smanjio2 bȉo si smanjio2 bȉo je smanjio2 bíli smo smanjili2 bíli ste smanjili2 bíli su smanjili2
Aorist smanjih smanji smanji smanjismo smanjiste smanjiše
Conditional I smanjio bih2 smanjio bi2 smanjio bi2 smanjili bismo2 smanjili biste2 smanjili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih smanjio2 bȉo bi smanjio2 bȉo bi smanjio2 bíli bismo smanjili2 bíli biste smanjili2 bíli bi smanjili2
Imperative — smanji — smanjimo smanjite —
Active past participle smanjio m / smanjila f / smanjilo n smanjili m / smanjile f / smanjila n
Passive past participle smanjen m / smanjena f / smanjeno n smanjeni m / smanjene f / smanjena 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

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