ženiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ženiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒěniti/
  • Hyphenation: že‧ni‧ti

Verb

žèniti impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐнити)

  1. (transitive) to marry (a woman; to make one's wife)
  2. (transitive) to marry off (a man)
  3. (reflexive) to get married (of a man)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ženiti
infinitive ženiti
present verbal adverb žȅnēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun žȅnjēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present ženim ženiš ženi ženimo ženite žene
future future I ženit ću1
ženiću
ženit ćeš1
ženićeš
ženit će1
ženiće
ženit ćemo1
ženićemo
ženit ćete1
ženićete
ženit ćē1
ženiće
future II bȕdēm ženio2 bȕdēš ženio2 bȕdē ženio2 bȕdēmo ženili2 bȕdēte ženili2 bȕdū ženili2
past perfect ženio sam2 ženio si2 ženio je2 ženili smo2 ženili ste2 ženili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam ženio2 bȉo si ženio2 bȉo je ženio2 bíli smo ženili2 bíli ste ženili2 bíli su ženili2
imperfect ženjah ženjaše ženjaše ženjasmo ženjaste ženjahu
conditional conditional I ženio bih2 ženio bi2 ženio bi2 ženili bismo2 ženili biste2 ženili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih ženio2 bȉo bi ženio2 bȉo bi ženio2 bíli bismo ženili2 bíli biste ženili2 bíli bi ženili2
imperative ženi ženimo ženite
active past participle ženio m / ženila f / ženilo n ženili m / ženile f / ženila n
passive past participle ženjen m / ženjena f / ženjeno n ženjeni m / ženjene f / ženjena 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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