smjeti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъměti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smjêti/
  • Hyphenation: smje‧ti

Verb

smjȅti impf (Cyrillic spelling смје̏ти)

  1. (intransitive) may, can (to be allowed)
    Smijem li ući? ― May I come in?
    Ako je nešto zabranjeno, to znači da se ne smije raditi. ― If something is banned, that means it may not be done.
  2. (by extension, intransitive, always negated) may, must, should, ought to (expressing insistence against something)
    Sloboda govora nikada ne smije biti uskraćena. ― Freedom of speech must never be denied.
  3. (intransitive, dated) to dare, venture

Conjugation

Conjugation of smjeti
Infinitive: smjeti Present verbal adverb: smȉjūći Past verbal adverb: — 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 smijem smiješ smije smijemo smijete smiju
Future Future I smjet ću1
smjeću 		smjet ćeš1
smjećeš 		smjet će1
smjeće 		smjet ćemo1
smjećemo 		smjet ćete1
smjećete 		smjet će1
smjeće
Future II bȕdēm smio2 bȕdēš smio2 bȕdē smio2 bȕdēmo smjeli2 bȕdēte smjeli2 bȕdū smjeli2
Past Perfect smio sam2 smio si2 smio je2 smjeli smo2 smjeli ste2 smjeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam smio2 bȉo si smio2 bȉo je smio2 bíli smo smjeli2 bíli ste smjeli2 bíli su smjeli2
Imperfect smijah smijaše smijaše smijasmo smijaste smijahu
Conditional I smio bih2 smio bi2 smio bi2 smjeli bismo2 smjeli biste2 smjeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih smio2 bȉo bi smio2 bȉo bi smio2 bíli bismo smjeli2 bíli biste smjeli2 bíli bi smjeli2
Imperative — smij — smijmo smijte —
Active past participle smio m / smjela f / smjelo n smjeli m / smjele f / smjela 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.

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