ceniti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

cijéniti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěniti, see also cena.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sěːniti/
Hyphenation: ce‧ni‧ti

Verb

céniti impf (Cyrillic spelling це́нити)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *ceniti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		ceniti
present verbal adverb		cénēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		cénjēnje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		cenim	ceniš	ceni	cenimo	cenite	cene
future	future I	cenit ću¹ ceniću	cenit ćeš¹ cenićeš	cenit će¹ ceniće	cenit ćemo¹ cenićemo	cenit ćete¹ cenićete	cenit ćē¹ ceniće
future	future II	bȕdēm cenio²	bȕdēš cenio²	bȕdē cenio²	bȕdēmo cenili²	bȕdēte cenili²	bȕdū cenili²
past	perfect	cenio sam²	cenio si²	cenio je²	cenili smo²	cenili ste²	cenili su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam cenio²	bȉo si cenio²	bȉo je cenio²	bíli smo cenili²	bíli ste cenili²	bíli su cenili²
	imperfect	cenjah	cenjaše	cenjaše	cenjasmo	cenjaste	cenjahu
conditional	conditional I	cenio bih²	cenio bi²	cenio bi²	cenili bismo²	cenili biste²	cenili bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih cenio²	bȉo bi cenio²	bȉo bi cenio²	bíli bismo cenili²	bíli biste cenili²	bíli bi cenili²
imperative		—	ceni	—	cenimo	cenite	—
active past participle		cenio m / cenila f / cenilo n			cenili m / cenile f / cenila n
passive past participle		cenjen m / cenjena f / cenjeno n			cenjeni m / cenjene f / cenjena 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.

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