zinuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zinǫti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zînuti/
  • Hyphenation: zi‧nu‧ti

Verb

zȉnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling зи̏нути)

  1. (intransitive) to open one's mouth
  2. (intransitive) to say something unintentionally
  3. (intransitive) to gape, open, yawn (appear suddenly as a hole)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zinuti
infinitive zinuti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb zȉnūvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zinem zineš zine zinemo zinete zinu
future future I zinut ću1
zinuću
zinut ćeš1
zinućeš
zinut će1
zinuće
zinut ćemo1
zinućemo
zinut ćete1
zinućete
zinut ćē1
zinuće
future II bȕdēm zinuo2 bȕdēš zinuo2 bȕdē zinuo2 bȕdēmo zinuli2 bȕdēte zinuli2 bȕdū zinuli2
past perfect zinuo sam2 zinuo si2 zinuo je2 zinuli smo2 zinuli ste2 zinuli su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zinuo2 bȉo si zinuo2 bȉo je zinuo2 bíli smo zinuli2 bíli ste zinuli2 bíli su zinuli2
aorist zinuh zinu zinu zinusmo zinuste zinuše
conditional conditional I zinuo bih2 zinuo bi2 zinuo bi2 zinuli bismo2 zinuli biste2 zinuli bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zinuo2 bȉo bi zinuo2 bȉo bi zinuo2 bíli bismo zinuli2 bíli biste zinuli2 bíli bi zinuli2
imperative zini zinimo zinite
active past participle zinuo m / zinula f / zinulo n zinuli m / zinule f / zinula 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

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