penjati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• pȇti (alternative infinitive)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pěɲati/
• Hyphenation: pe‧nja‧ti

Verb

pènjati impf (Cyrillic spelling пѐњати)

1. (reflexive) to climb, rise, ascend

Conjugation

Conjugation of penjati

Infinitive: penjati		Present verbal adverb: pènjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pènjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		penjem	penješ	penje	penjemo	penjete	penju
Future	Future I	penjat ću1 penjaću	penjat ćeš1 penjaćeš	penjat će1 penjaće	penjat ćemo1 penjaćemo	penjat ćete1 penjaćete	penjat će1 penjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm penjao2	bȕdēš penjao2	bȕdē penjao2	bȕdēmo penjali2	bȕdēte penjali2	bȕdū penjali2
Past	Perfect	penjao sam2	penjao si2	penjao je2	penjali smo2	penjali ste2	penjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam penjao2	bȉo si penjao2	bȉo je penjao2	bíli smo penjali2	bíli ste penjali2	bíli su penjali2
	Imperfect	penjah	penjaše	penjaše	penjasmo	penjaste	penjahu
Conditional I		penjao bih2	penjao bi2	penjao bi2	penjali bismo2	penjali biste2	penjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih penjao2	bȉo bi penjao2	bȉo bi penjao2	bíli bismo penjali2	bíli biste penjali2	bíli bi penjali2
Imperative		—	penji	—	penjimo	penjite	—
Active past participle		penjao m / penjala f / penjalo n			penjali m / penjale f / penjala 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

• “penjati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025