kijati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kyxati.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ki‧ja‧ti

Verb

kíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ки́јати)

  1. (intransitive) to sneeze

Conjugation

Conjugation of kijati
infinitive kijati
present verbal adverb kijajući
past verbal adverb
verbal noun kíjānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present kijam kijaš kija kijamo kijate kijaju
future future I kijat ću1
kijaću
kijat ćeš1
kijaćeš
kijat će1
kijaće
kijat ćemo1
kijaćemo
kijat ćete1
kijaćete
kijat ćē1
kijaće
future II bȕdēm kijao2 bȕdēš kijao2 bȕdē kijao2 bȕdēmo kijali2 bȕdēte kijali2 bȕdū kijali2
past perfect kijao sam2 kijao si2 kijao je2 kijali smo2 kijali ste2 kijali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam kijao2 bȉo si kijao2 bȉo je kijao2 bíli smo kijali2 bíli ste kijali2 bíli su kijali2
imperfect kijah kijaše kijaše kijasmo kijaste kijahu
conditional conditional I kijao bih2 kijao bi2 kijao bi2 kijali bismo2 kijali biste2 kijali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih kijao2 bȉo bi kijao2 bȉo bi kijao2 bíli bismo kijali2 bíli biste kijali2 bíli bi kijali2
imperative kijaj kijajm kijajte
active past participle kijao m / kijala f / kijalo n kijali m / kijale f / kijala 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.