mumljati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mùmlati

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǔmʎati/
• Hyphenation: mum‧lja‧ti

Verb

mùmljati impf (Cyrillic spelling му̀мљати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to fumble, mutter
2. (intransitive) to growl

Conjugation

Conjugation of mumljati

Infinitive: mumljati		Present verbal adverb: mùmljajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: mùmljānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mumljam	mumljaš	mumlja	mumljamo	mumljate	mumljaju
Future	Future I	mumljat ću1 mumljaću	mumljat ćeš1 mumljaćeš	mumljat će1 mumljaće	mumljat ćemo1 mumljaćemo	mumljat ćete1 mumljaćete	mumljat će1 mumljaće
	Future II	bȕdēm mumljao2	bȕdēš mumljao2	bȕdē mumljao2	bȕdēmo mumljali2	bȕdēte mumljali2	bȕdū mumljali2
Past	Perfect	mumljao sam2	mumljao si2	mumljao je2	mumljali smo2	mumljali ste2	mumljali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam mumljao2	bȉo si mumljao2	bȉo je mumljao2	bíli smo mumljali2	bíli ste mumljali2	bíli su mumljali2
	Imperfect	mumljah	mumljaše	mumljaše	mumljasmo	mumljaste	mumljahu
Conditional I		mumljao bih2	mumljao bi2	mumljao bi2	mumljali bismo2	mumljali biste2	mumljali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih mumljao2	bȉo bi mumljao2	bȉo bi mumljao2	bíli bismo mumljali2	bíli biste mumljali2	bíli bi mumljali2
Imperative		—	mumljaj	—	mumljajmo	mumljajte	—
Active past participle		mumljao m / mumljala f / mumljalo n			mumljali m / mumljale f / mumljala 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.

References

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