prazniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prǎːzniti/
  • Hyphenation: praz‧ni‧ti

Verb

prázniti impf (Cyrillic spelling пра́знити)

  1. (transitive) to empty
  2. (transitive) to impoverish
  3. (reflexive) to empty oneself, to discharge
  4. (transitive) to relieve oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of prazniti
infinitive prazniti
present verbal adverb práznēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun prážnjēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present praznim prazniš prazni praznimo praznite prazne
future future I praznit ću1
prazniću
praznit ćeš1
praznićeš
praznit će1
prazniće
praznit ćemo1
praznićemo
praznit ćete1
praznićete
praznit ćē1
prazniće
future II bȕdēm praznio2 bȕdēš praznio2 bȕdē praznio2 bȕdēmo praznili2 bȕdēte praznili2 bȕdū praznili2
past perfect praznio sam2 praznio si2 praznio je2 praznili smo2 praznili ste2 praznili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam praznio2 bȉo si praznio2 bȉo je praznio2 bíli smo praznili2 bíli ste praznili2 bíli su praznili2
imperfect pražnjah pražnjaše pražnjaše pražnjasmo pražnjaste pražnjahu
conditional conditional I praznio bih2 praznio bi2 praznio bi2 praznili bismo2 praznili biste2 praznili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih praznio2 bȉo bi praznio2 bȉo bi praznio2 bíli bismo praznili2 bíli biste praznili2 bíli bi praznili2
imperative prazni praznimo praznite
active past participle praznio m / praznila f / praznilo n praznili m / praznile f / praznila n
passive past participle pražnjen m / pražnjena f / pražnjeno n pražnjeni m / pražnjene f / pražnjena 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.

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Slovene

Etymology

From prázen +‎ -iti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /praznìːti/, /prazníːti/, /pràːzniti/
  • Hyphenation: praz‧ni‧ti

Verb

praznīti or prázniti impf

  1. (transitive) to empty

Conjugation

-iti -im (AP b)
infinitive praznīti, prázniti
1st singular práznim
infinitive praznīti, prázniti praznit
supine práznit
verbal noun práznjenje
participle converb
present praznȅč
past práznjen
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular práznił praznȋla praznílo
dual prazníla prazníli prazníli
plural prazníli prazníle prazníla
present imperative
1st singular práznim
2nd singular prázniš prázni
3rd singular prázni
1st dual prázniva prázniva, praznȋva
2nd dual práznita práznita, praznȋta
3rd dual práznita
1st plural práznimo práznimo, praznȋmo
2nd plural práznite práznite, praznȋte
3rd plural práznijo

Derived terms

  • izpraznīti
  • spraznīti