mniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mьněti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *minḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mnîti/
• Hyphenation: mni‧ti

Verb

mnȉti impf (Cyrillic spelling мни̏ти)

1. (intransitive, archaic, expressively) to opine, think

Conjugation

Conjugation of mniti

Infinitive: mniti		Present verbal adverb: mnȉjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: mnijénje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mnijem	mniješ	mnije	mnijemo	mnijete	mniju
Future	Future I	mnit ću1 mniću	mnit ćeš1 mnićeš	mnit će1 mniće	mnit ćemo1 mnićemo	mnit ćete1 mnićete	mnit će1 mniće
	Future II	bȕdēm mnio2	bȕdēš mnio2	bȕdē mnio2	bȕdēmo mnili2	bȕdēte mnili2	bȕdū mnili2
Past	Perfect	mnio sam2	mnio si2	mnio je2	mnili smo2	mnili ste2	mnili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam mnio2	bȉo si mnio2	bȉo je mnio2	bíli smo mnili2	bíli ste mnili2	bíli su mnili2
	Imperfect	mnijah	mnijaše	mnijaše	mnijasmo	mnijaste	mnijahu
Conditional I		mnio bih2	mnio bi2	mnio bi2	mnili bismo2	mnili biste2	mnili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih mnio2	bȉo bi mnio2	bȉo bi mnio2	bíli bismo mnili2	bíli biste mnili2	bíli bi mnili2
Imperative		—	mnij	—	mnijmo	mnijte	—
Active past participle		mnio m / mnila f / mnilo n			mnili m / mnile f / mnila 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

• “mniti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024