zanimati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian занима́ть (zanimátʹ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zanǐːmati/
Hyphenation: za‧ni‧ma‧ti

Verb

zanímati impf (Cyrillic spelling зани́мати)

(transitive, reflexive) to interest (+ za (“in”))
Sve me zanima
Everything interests me.
(transitive, reflexive) to be interested in, take an interest in (+ u (“in”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of *zanimati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		zanimati
present verbal adverb		zanímajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		zanímānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		zanimam	zanimaš	zanima	zanimamo	zanimate	zanimaju
future	future I	zanimat ću¹ zanimaću	zanimat ćeš¹ zanimaćeš	zanimat će¹ zanimaće	zanimat ćemo¹ zanimaćemo	zanimat ćete¹ zanimaćete	zanimat ćē¹ zanimaće
future	future II	bȕdēm zanimao²	bȕdēš zanimao²	bȕdē zanimao²	bȕdēmo zanimali²	bȕdēte zanimali²	bȕdū zanimali²
past	perfect	zanimao sam²	zanimao si²	zanimao je²	zanimali smo²	zanimali ste²	zanimali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam zanimao²	bȉo si zanimao²	bȉo je zanimao²	bíli smo zanimali²	bíli ste zanimali²	bíli su zanimali²
	imperfect	zanimah	zanimaše	zanimaše	zanimasmo	zanimaste	zanimahu
conditional	conditional I	zanimao bih²	zanimao bi²	zanimao bi²	zanimali bismo²	zanimali biste²	zanimali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih zanimao²	bȉo bi zanimao²	bȉo bi zanimao²	bíli bismo zanimali²	bíli biste zanimali²	bíli bi zanimali²
imperative		—	zanimaj	—	zanimajmo	zanimajte	—
active past participle		zanimao m / zanimala f / zanimalo n			zanimali m / zanimale f / zanimala 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.