okaniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From o- +‎ kaniti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /okǎːniti/
• Hyphenation: o‧ka‧ni‧ti

Verb

okániti pf (Cyrillic spelling ока́нити)

1. (reflexive) to avoid, shun (+genitive)

Conjugation

Conjugation of okaniti

Infinitive: okaniti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: okánīvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		okanim	okaniš	okani	okanimo	okanite	okane
Future	Future I	okanit ću1 okaniću	okanit ćeš1 okanićeš	okanit će1 okaniće	okanit ćemo1 okanićemo	okanit ćete1 okanićete	okanit će1 okaniće
	Future II	bȕdēm okanio2	bȕdēš okanio2	bȕdē okanio2	bȕdēmo okanili2	bȕdēte okanili2	bȕdū okanili2
Past	Perfect	okanio sam2	okanio si2	okanio je2	okanili smo2	okanili ste2	okanili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam okanio2	bȉo si okanio2	bȉo je okanio2	bíli smo okanili2	bíli ste okanili2	bíli su okanili2
	Aorist	okanih	okani	okani	okanismo	okaniste	okaniše
Conditional I		okanio bih2	okanio bi2	okanio bi2	okanili bismo2	okanili biste2	okanili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih okanio2	bȉo bi okanio2	bȉo bi okanio2	bíli bismo okanili2	bíli biste okanili2	bíli bi okanili2
Imperative		—	okani	—	okanimo	okanite	—
Active past participle		okanio m / okanila f / okanilo n			okanili m / okanile f / okanila 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

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