zanimati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian занима́ть (zanimátʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zanǐːmati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧ni‧ma‧ti

Verb

zanímati impf (Cyrillic spelling зани́мати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to interest (+ za (“in”))
    Sve me zanima
    Everything interests me.
  2. (transitive, reflexive) to be interested in, take an interest in (+ u (“in”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of zanimati
Infinitive: zanimati Present verbal adverb: zanímajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zanímānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zanimam zanimaš zanima zanimamo zanimate zanimaju
Future Future I zanimat ću1
zanimaću 		zanimat ćeš1
zanimaćeš 		zanimat će1
zanimaće 		zanimat ćemo1
zanimaćemo 		zanimat ćete1
zanimaćete 		zanimat će1
zanimaće
Future II bȕdēm zanimao2 bȕdēš zanimao2 bȕdē zanimao2 bȕdēmo zanimali2 bȕdēte zanimali2 bȕdū zanimali2
Past Perfect zanimao sam2 zanimao si2 zanimao je2 zanimali smo2 zanimali ste2 zanimali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zanimao2 bȉo si zanimao2 bȉo je zanimao2 bíli smo zanimali2 bíli ste zanimali2 bíli su zanimali2
Imperfect zanimah zanimaše zanimaše zanimasmo zanimaste zanimahu
Conditional I zanimao bih2 zanimao bi2 zanimao bi2 zanimali bismo2 zanimali biste2 zanimali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zanimao2 bȉo bi zanimao2 bȉo bi zanimao2 bíli bismo zanimali2 bíli biste zanimali2 bíli bi zanimali2
Imperative — zanimaj — zanimajmo zanimajte —
Active past participle zanimao m / zanimala f / zanimalo n zanimali m / zanimale f / zanimala 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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