ćerati

See also: cerati

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ćȅrati impf (Cyrillic spelling ће̏рати)

(archaic) Alternative form of tjȅrati
- 1891, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Srpske narodne pjesme:
  Kum svog kuma na sudove ćera,...
  A godfather drives his own godfather to court,...

Conjugation

Conjugation of ćerati

Infinitive: ćerati		Present verbal adverb: ćȅrajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ćȅrānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ćeram	ćeraš	ćera	ćeramo	ćerate	ćeraju
Future	Future I	ćerat ću¹ ćeraću	ćerat ćeš¹ ćeraćeš	ćerat će¹ ćeraće	ćerat ćemo¹ ćeraćemo	ćerat ćete¹ ćeraćete	ćerat će¹ ćeraće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ćerao²	bȕdēš ćerao²	bȕdē ćerao²	bȕdēmo ćerali²	bȕdēte ćerali²	bȕdū ćerali²
Past	Perfect	ćerao sam²	ćerao si²	ćerao je²	ćerali smo²	ćerali ste²	ćerali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam ćerao²	bȉo si ćerao²	bȉo je ćerao²	bíli smo ćerali²	bíli ste ćerali²	bíli su ćerali²
	Imperfect	ćerah	ćeraše	ćeraše	ćerasmo	ćeraste	ćerahu
Conditional I		ćerao bih²	ćerao bi²	ćerao bi²	ćerali bismo²	ćerali biste²	ćerali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih ćerao²	bȉo bi ćerao²	bȉo bi ćerao²	bíli bismo ćerali²	bíli biste ćerali²	bíli bi ćerali²
Imperative		—	ćeraj	—	ćerajmo	ćerajte	—
Active past participle		ćerao m / ćerala f / ćeralo n			ćerali m / ćerale f / ćerala n
Passive past participle		ćeran m / ćerana f / ćerano n			ćerani m / ćerane f / ćerana 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.