mniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mьněti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *minḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mnîti/
  • Hyphenation: mni‧ti

Verb

mnȉti impf (Cyrillic spelling мни̏ти)

  1. (intransitive, archaic, expressive) to opine, think

Conjugation

Conjugation of mniti
infinitive mniti
present verbal adverb mnȉjūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun mnijénje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present mnijem mniješ mnije mnijemo mnijete mniju
future future I mnit ću1
mniću
mnit ćeš1
mnićeš
mnit će1
mniće
mnit ćemo1
mnićemo
mnit ćete1
mnićete
mnit ćē1
mniće
future II bȕdēm mnio2 bȕdēš mnio2 bȕdē mnio2 bȕdēmo mnili2 bȕdēte mnili2 bȕdū mnili2
past perfect mnio sam2 mnio si2 mnio je2 mnili smo2 mnili ste2 mnili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam mnio2 bȉo si mnio2 bȉo je mnio2 bíli smo mnili2 bíli ste mnili2 bíli su mnili2
imperfect mnijah mnijaše mnijaše mnijasmo mnijaste mnijahu
conditional conditional I mnio bih2 mnio bi2 mnio bi2 mnili bismo2 mnili biste2 mnili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih mnio2 bȉo bi mnio2 bȉo bi mnio2 bíli bismo mnili2 bíli biste mnili2 bíli bi mnili2
imperative mnij mnijmo mnijte
active past participle mnio m / mnila f / mnilo n mnili m / mnile f / mnila 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.

Further reading

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