Inherited from Proto-Slavic *smьjati.
smèjati impf (Cyrillic spelling смѐјати)
| Infinitive: smejati | Present verbal adverb: sméjūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: smèjānje | ||||
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| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | smejem | smeješ | smeje | smejemo | smejete | smeju | |
| Future | Future I | smejat ću1 smejaću |
smejat ćeš1 smejaćeš |
smejat će1 smejaće |
smejat ćemo1 smejaćemo |
smejat ćete1 smejaćete |
smejat će1 smejaće |
| Future II | bȕdēm smejao2 | bȕdēš smejao2 | bȕdē smejao2 | bȕdēmo smejali2 | bȕdēte smejali2 | bȕdū smejali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | smejao sam2 | smejao si2 | smejao je2 | smejali smo2 | smejali ste2 | smejali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam smejao2 | bȉo si smejao2 | bȉo je smejao2 | bíli smo smejali2 | bíli ste smejali2 | bíli su smejali2 | |
| Imperfect | smejah | smejaše | smejaše | smejasmo | smejaste | smejahu | |
| Conditional I | smejao bih2 | smejao bi2 | smejao bi2 | smejali bismo2 | smejali biste2 | smejali bi2 | |
| Conditional II4 | bȉo bih smejao2 | bȉo bi smejao2 | bȉo bi smejao2 | bíli bismo smejali2 | bíli biste smejali2 | bíli bi smejali2 | |
| Imperative | — | smej | — | smejmo | smejte | — | |
| Active past participle | smejao m / smejala f / smejalo n | smejali m / smejale f / smejala 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.
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From Proto-Slavic *smьjati.
smejáti impf
| -Vjati -Vjem or -ati -im | ||||||
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| infinitive | smejáti | |||||
| 1st singular | sméjem, smejím | |||||
| infinitive | smejáti | smejat | ||||
| supine | smejȃt, sméjat | |||||
| verbal noun | smejȃnje | |||||
| participle | converb | |||||
| present | smejọ̄č | smejȃje | ||||
| past | — | — | ||||
| l-participle | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| singular | smejȃł, sméjał | smejāla | smejālo | |||
| dual | smejāla | smejāli | smejāli | |||
| plural | smejāli | smejāle | smejāla | |||
| present | imperative | |||||
| 1st singular | sméjem, smejím | — | ||||
| 2nd singular | sméješ, smejíš | smȅj, smēj | ||||
| 3rd singular | sméje, smejí | — | ||||
| 1st dual | sméjeva, smejíva | smȇjva | ||||
| 2nd dual | sméjeta, smejíta | smȇjta | ||||
| 3rd dual | sméjeta, smejíta | — | ||||
| 1st plural | sméjemo, smejímo | smȇjmo | ||||
| 2nd plural | sméjete, smejíte | smȇjte | ||||
| 3rd plural | sméjejo, smejíjo | — | ||||