kotiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kotiti.^[1] First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kǒtiti/
Hyphenation: ko‧ti‧ti

Verb

kòtiti impf (Cyrillic spelling ко̀тити)

(transitive, reflexive) to bear, to bring forth (of animals)
(reflexive, figuratively) to multiply

Conjugation

Conjugation of kotiti

Infinitive: kotiti		Present verbal adverb: kòtēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kòćēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kotim	kotiš	koti	kotimo	kotite	kote
Future	Future I	kotit ću¹ kotiću	kotit ćeš¹ kotićeš	kotit će¹ kotiće	kotit ćemo¹ kotićemo	kotit ćete¹ kotićete	kotit će¹ kotiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm kotio²	bȕdēš kotio²	bȕdē kotio²	bȕdēmo kotili²	bȕdēte kotili²	bȕdū kotili²
Past	Perfect	kotio sam²	kotio si²	kotio je²	kotili smo²	kotili ste²	kotili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam kotio²	bȉo si kotio²	bȉo je kotio²	bíli smo kotili²	bíli ste kotili²	bíli su kotili²
	Imperfect	koćah	koćaše	koćaše	koćasmo	koćaste	koćahu
Conditional I		kotio bih²	kotio bi²	kotio bi²	kotili bismo²	kotili biste²	kotili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih kotio²	bȉo bi kotio²	bȉo bi kotio²	bíli bismo kotili²	bíli biste kotili²	bíli bi kotili²
Imperative		—	koti	—	kotimo	kotite	—
Active past participle		kotio m / kotila f / kotilo n			kotili m / kotile f / kotila 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

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kotiti”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 488

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kotiti”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 488

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