cerekati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ceriti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡serěkati/
  • Hyphenation: ce‧re‧ka‧ti

Verb

cerèkati impf (Cyrillic spelling церѐкати)

  1. (reflexive) to snicker, snigger, titter, laugh derisively or unpleasantly

Conjugation

Conjugation of cerekati
infinitive cerekati
present verbal adverb cerèkajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun cerèkānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present cerekam cerekaš cereka cerekamo cerekate cerekaju
future future I cerekat ću1
cerekaću
cerekat ćeš1
cerekaćeš
cerekat će1
cerekaće
cerekat ćemo1
cerekaćemo
cerekat ćete1
cerekaćete
cerekat ćē1
cerekaće
future II bȕdēm cerekao2 bȕdēš cerekao2 bȕdē cerekao2 bȕdēmo cerekali2 bȕdēte cerekali2 bȕdū cerekali2
past perfect cerekao sam2 cerekao si2 cerekao je2 cerekali smo2 cerekali ste2 cerekali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam cerekao2 bȉo si cerekao2 bȉo je cerekao2 bíli smo cerekali2 bíli ste cerekali2 bíli su cerekali2
imperfect cerekah cerekaše cerekaše cerekasmo cerekaste cerekahu
conditional conditional I cerekao bih2 cerekao bi2 cerekao bi2 cerekali bismo2 cerekali biste2 cerekali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih cerekao2 bȉo bi cerekao2 bȉo bi cerekao2 bíli bismo cerekali2 bíli biste cerekali2 bíli bi cerekali2
imperative cerekaj cerekajmo cerekajte
active past participle cerekao m / cerekala f / cerekalo n cerekali m / cerekale f / cerekala 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.

References

  • cerekati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025