ciljati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From cȋlj.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sǐːʎati/
Hyphenation: ci‧lja‧ti

Verb

cíljati impf (Cyrillic spelling ци́љати)

(transitive) to aim at
(transitive, figuratively) to allude to

Conjugation

Conjugation of ciljati

Infinitive: ciljati		Present verbal adverb: cíljajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cíljānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ciljam	ciljaš	cilja	ciljamo	ciljate	ciljaju
Future	Future I	ciljat ću¹ ciljaću	ciljat ćeš¹ ciljaćeš	ciljat će¹ ciljaće	ciljat ćemo¹ ciljaćemo	ciljat ćete¹ ciljaćete	ciljat će¹ ciljaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ciljao²	bȕdēš ciljao²	bȕdē ciljao²	bȕdēmo ciljali²	bȕdēte ciljali²	bȕdū ciljali²
Past	Perfect	ciljao sam²	ciljao si²	ciljao je²	ciljali smo²	ciljali ste²	ciljali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam ciljao²	bȉo si ciljao²	bȉo je ciljao²	bíli smo ciljali²	bíli ste ciljali²	bíli su ciljali²
	Imperfect	ciljah	ciljaše	ciljaše	ciljasmo	ciljaste	ciljahu
Conditional I		ciljao bih²	ciljao bi²	ciljao bi²	ciljali bismo²	ciljali biste²	ciljali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih ciljao²	bȉo bi ciljao²	bȉo bi ciljao²	bíli bismo ciljali²	bíli biste ciljali²	bíli bi ciljali²
Imperative		—	ciljaj	—	ciljajmo	ciljajte	—
Active past participle		ciljao m / ciljala f / ciljalo n			ciljali m / ciljale f / ciljala n
Passive past participle		ciljan m / ciljana f / ciljano n			ciljani m / ciljane f / ciljana 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

nacíljati

References

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