čekati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čekati (“to wait, await, expect”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃêkati/
  • Hyphenation: če‧ka‧ti

Verb

čȅkati impf (Cyrillic spelling че̏кати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to wait (for), await

Conjugation

Conjugation of čekati
Infinitive: čekati Present verbal adverb: čȅkajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: čȅkānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present čekam čekaš čeka čekamo čekate čekaju
Future Future I čekat ću1
čekaću 		čekat ćeš1
čekaćeš 		čekat će1
čekaće 		čekat ćemo1
čekaćemo 		čekat ćete1
čekaćete 		čekat će1
čekaće
Future II bȕdēm čekao2 bȕdēš čekao2 bȕdē čekao2 bȕdēmo čekali2 bȕdēte čekali2 bȕdū čekali2
Past Perfect čekao sam2 čekao si2 čekao je2 čekali smo2 čekali ste2 čekali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam čekao2 bȉo si čekao2 bȉo je čekao2 bíli smo čekali2 bíli ste čekali2 bíli su čekali2
Imperfect čekah čekaše čekaše čekasmo čekaste čekahu
Conditional I čekao bih2 čekao bi2 čekao bi2 čekali bismo2 čekali biste2 čekali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih čekao2 bȉo bi čekao2 bȉo bi čekao2 bíli bismo čekali2 bíli biste čekali2 bíli bi čekali2
Imperative — čekaj — čekajmo čekajte —
Active past participle čekao m / čekala f / čekalo n čekali m / čekale f / čekala n
Passive past participle čekan m / čekana f / čekano n čekani m / čekane f / čekana 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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