gnjiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gňiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɲîːti/
• Hyphenation: gnji‧ti

Verb

gnjȋti impf (Cyrillic spelling гњи̑ти)

1. (intransitive, rare, Croatia) to rot, decay

   Synonym: truliti

Conjugation

Conjugation of gnjiti

Infinitive: gnjiti		Present verbal adverb: gnjȉjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: gnjȉjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		gnjijem	gnjiješ	gnjije	gnjijemo	gnjijete	gnjiju
Future	Future I	gnjit ću1 gnjiću	gnjit ćeš1 gnjićeš	gnjit će1 gnjiće	gnjit ćemo1 gnjićemo	gnjit ćete1 gnjićete	gnjit će1 gnjiće
	Future II	bȕdēm gnjio2	bȕdēš gnjio2	bȕdē gnjio2	bȕdēmo gnjili2	bȕdēte gnjili2	bȕdū gnjili2
Past	Perfect	gnjio sam2	gnjio si2	gnjio je2	gnjili smo2	gnjili ste2	gnjili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam gnjio2	bȉo si gnjio2	bȉo je gnjio2	bíli smo gnjili2	bíli ste gnjili2	bíli su gnjili2
	Imperfect	gnjijah	gnjijaše	gnjijaše	gnjijasmo	gnjijaste	gnjijahu
Conditional I		gnjio bih2	gnjio bi2	gnjio bi2	gnjili bismo2	gnjili biste2	gnjili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih gnjio2	bȉo bi gnjio2	bȉo bi gnjio2	bíli bismo gnjili2	bíli biste gnjili2	bíli bi gnjili2
Imperative		—	gnjij	—	gnjijmo	gnjijte	—
Active past participle		gnjio m / gnjila f / gnjilo n			gnjili m / gnjile f / gnjila 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.

Further reading

• “gnjiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025