ćerati

See also: cerati

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ćȅrati impf (Cyrillic spelling ће̏рати)

1. (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 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.