umeti

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See also: uměti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uměti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǔmeti/
  • Hyphenation: u‧me‧ti

Verb

ùmeti impf (Cyrillic spelling у̀мети)

  1. (intransitive) to know how (to do something)

Conjugation

Conjugation of umeti
Infinitive: umeti Present verbal adverb: ùmejūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: ùmēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present umem umeš ume umemo umete umeju
Future Future I umet ću1
umeću 		umet ćeš1
umećeš 		umet će1
umeće 		umet ćemo1
umećemo 		umet ćete1
umećete 		umet će1
umeće
Future II bȕdēm umeo2 bȕdēš umeo2 bȕdē umeo2 bȕdēmo umeli2 bȕdēte umeli2 bȕdū umeli2
Past Perfect umeo sam2 umeo si2 umeo je2 umeli smo2 umeli ste2 umeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam umeo2 bȉo si umeo2 bȉo je umeo2 bíli smo umeli2 bíli ste umeli2 bíli su umeli2
Imperfect umijah umijaše umijaše umijasmo umijaste umijahu
Conditional I umeo bih2 umeo bi2 umeo bi2 umeli bismo2 umeli biste2 umeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih umeo2 bȉo bi umeo2 bȉo bi umeo2 bíli bismo umeli2 bíli biste umeli2 bíli bi umeli2
Imperative — umej — umejmo umejte —
Active past participle umeo m / umela f / umelo n umeli m / umele f / umela 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.

Derived terms

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *uměti.

Pronunciation

Verb

umẹ́ti impf or pf

  1. to understand, to grasp
  2. to know how, to be able

Inflection

infinitive umẹ́ti
1st singular ȗmem
infinitive umẹ́ti umet
supine umȅt, umẹ̑t
verbal noun umẹ̑tje
participle converb
present umȅč —
past úmljen —
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular umȅł, umẹ̑ł, úmeł umẹ̄la umẹ̄lo
dual umẹ̄la umẹ̄li umẹ̄li
plural umẹ̄li umẹ̄le umẹ̄la
present imperative
1st singular ȗmem —
2nd singular ȗmeš úmi
3rd singular ȗme —
1st dual ȗmeva úmiva, umȋva
2nd dual ȗmeta úmita, umȋta
3rd dual ȗmeta —
1st plural ȗmemo úmimo, umȋmo
2nd plural ȗmete úmite, umȋte
3rd plural ȗmejo —

Derived terms

Further reading

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