proklinjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prǒkliɲati/
• Hyphenation: pro‧kli‧nja‧ti

Verb

pròklinjati impf (Cyrillic spelling про̀клињати)

1. (transitive) to curse (place a curse upon)
2. (transitive) to damn (condemn to hell)

Conjugation

Conjugation of proklinjati

Infinitive: proklinjati		Present verbal adverb: pròklinjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pròklinjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		proklinjem	proklinješ	proklinje	proklinjemo	proklinjete	proklinju
Future	Future I	proklinjat ću1 proklinjaću	proklinjat ćeš1 proklinjaćeš	proklinjat će1 proklinjaće	proklinjat ćemo1 proklinjaćemo	proklinjat ćete1 proklinjaćete	proklinjat će1 proklinjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm proklinjao2	bȕdēš proklinjao2	bȕdē proklinjao2	bȕdēmo proklinjali2	bȕdēte proklinjali2	bȕdū proklinjali2
Past	Perfect	proklinjao sam2	proklinjao si2	proklinjao je2	proklinjali smo2	proklinjali ste2	proklinjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam proklinjao2	bȉo si proklinjao2	bȉo je proklinjao2	bíli smo proklinjali2	bíli ste proklinjali2	bíli su proklinjali2
	Imperfect	proklinjah	proklinjaše	proklinjaše	proklinjasmo	proklinjaste	proklinjahu
Conditional I		proklinjao bih2	proklinjao bi2	proklinjao bi2	proklinjali bismo2	proklinjali biste2	proklinjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih proklinjao2	bȉo bi proklinjao2	bȉo bi proklinjao2	bíli bismo proklinjali2	bíli biste proklinjali2	bíli bi proklinjali2
Imperative		—	proklinji	—	proklinjimo	proklinjite	—
Active past participle		proklinjao m / proklinjala f / proklinjalo n			proklinjali m / proklinjale f / proklinjala n
Passive past participle		proklinjan m / proklinjana f / proklinjano n			proklinjani m / proklinjane f / proklinjana 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.

Related terms

• pròklēti pf

Further reading

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