zaklinjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zǎkliɲati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧kli‧nja‧ti

Verb

zàklinjati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀клињати)

  1. (reflexive) to swear (take an oath)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zaklinjati
infinitive zaklinjati
present verbal adverb zàklinjūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun zàklinjānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zaklinjem zaklinješ zaklinje zaklinjemo zaklinjete zaklinju
future future I zaklinjat ću1
zaklinjaću
zaklinjat ćeš1
zaklinjaćeš
zaklinjat će1
zaklinjaće
zaklinjat ćemo1
zaklinjaćemo
zaklinjat ćete1
zaklinjaćete
zaklinjat ćē1
zaklinjaće
future II bȕdēm zaklinjao2 bȕdēš zaklinjao2 bȕdē zaklinjao2 bȕdēmo zaklinjali2 bȕdēte zaklinjali2 bȕdū zaklinjali2
past perfect zaklinjao sam2 zaklinjao si2 zaklinjao je2 zaklinjali smo2 zaklinjali ste2 zaklinjali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zaklinjao2 bȉo si zaklinjao2 bȉo je zaklinjao2 bíli smo zaklinjali2 bíli ste zaklinjali2 bíli su zaklinjali2
imperfect zaklinjah zaklinjaše zaklinjaše zaklinjasmo zaklinjaste zaklinjahu
conditional conditional I zaklinjao bih2 zaklinjao bi2 zaklinjao bi2 zaklinjali bismo2 zaklinjali biste2 zaklinjali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zaklinjao2 bȉo bi zaklinjao2 bȉo bi zaklinjao2 bíli bismo zaklinjali2 bíli biste zaklinjali2 bíli bi zaklinjali2
imperative zaklinji zaklinjimo zaklinjite
active past participle zaklinjao m / zaklinjala f / zaklinjalo n zaklinjali m / zaklinjale f / zaklinjala 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

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