brojati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bròjiti

Etymology

From brȏj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brǒjati/
• Hyphenation: bro‧ja‧ti

Verb

bròjati impf (Cyrillic spelling бро̀јати)

1. (transitive) to count, number, enumerate

Conjugation

Conjugation of brojati

Infinitive: brojati		Present verbal adverb: bròjēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bròjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		brojim	brojiš	broji	brojimo	brojite	broje
Future	Future I	brojat ću1 brojaću	brojat ćeš1 brojaćeš	brojat će1 brojaće	brojat ćemo1 brojaćemo	brojat ćete1 brojaćete	brojat će1 brojaće
	Future II	bȕdēm brojao2	bȕdēš brojao2	bȕdē brojao2	bȕdēmo brojali2	bȕdēte brojali2	bȕdū brojali2
Past	Perfect	brojao sam2	brojao si2	brojao je2	brojali smo2	brojali ste2	brojali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam brojao2	bȉo si brojao2	bȉo je brojao2	bíli smo brojali2	bíli ste brojali2	bíli su brojali2
	Imperfect	brojah	brojaše	brojaše	brojasmo	brojaste	brojahu
Conditional I		brojao bih2	brojao bi2	brojao bi2	brojali bismo2	brojali biste2	brojali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih brojao2	bȉo bi brojao2	bȉo bi brojao2	bíli bismo brojali2	bíli biste brojali2	bíli bi brojali2
Imperative		—	broji / broj	—	brojimo / brojmo	brojite / brojte	—
Active past participle		brojao m / brojala f / brojalo n			brojali m / brojale f / brojala n
Passive past participle		brojan m / brojana f / brojano n			brojani m / brojane f / brojana 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.

Derived terms

• izbròjati
• nabròjati
• pribròjati

Further reading

• “brojati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024