mijenjati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• ménjati (Ekavian)

Etymology

See mijena

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjěːɲati/
• Hyphenation: mije‧nja‧ti

Verb

mijénjati impf (Cyrillic spelling мије́њати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to change
2. (transitive) to exchange
3. (transitive, grammar) to inflect
4. (intransitive, reflexive) to exchange with

Conjugation

Conjugation of mijenjati

Infinitive: mijenjati		Present verbal adverb: mijénjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: mijénjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mijenjam	mijenjaš	mijenja	mijenjamo	mijenjate	mijenjaju
Future	Future I	mijenjat ću1 mijenjaću	mijenjat ćeš1 mijenjaćeš	mijenjat će1 mijenjaće	mijenjat ćemo1 mijenjaćemo	mijenjat ćete1 mijenjaćete	mijenjat će1 mijenjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm mijenjao2	bȕdēš mijenjao2	bȕdē mijenjao2	bȕdēmo mijenjali2	bȕdēte mijenjali2	bȕdū mijenjali2
Past	Perfect	mijenjao sam2	mijenjao si2	mijenjao je2	mijenjali smo2	mijenjali ste2	mijenjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam mijenjao2	bȉo si mijenjao2	bȉo je mijenjao2	bíli smo mijenjali2	bíli ste mijenjali2	bíli su mijenjali2
	Imperfect	mijenjah	mijenjaše	mijenjaše	mijenjasmo	mijenjaste	mijenjahu
Conditional I		mijenjao bih2	mijenjao bi2	mijenjao bi2	mijenjali bismo2	mijenjali biste2	mijenjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih mijenjao2	bȉo bi mijenjao2	bȉo bi mijenjao2	bíli bismo mijenjali2	bíli biste mijenjali2	bíli bi mijenjali2
Imperative		—	mijenjaj	—	mijenjajmo	mijenjajte	—
Active past participle		mijenjao m / mijenjala f / mijenjalo n			mijenjali m / mijenjale f / mijenjala n
Passive past participle		mijenjan m / mijenjana f / mijenjano n			mijenjani m / mijenjane f / mijenjana 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

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