sinuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sìjati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sǐːnuti/
Hyphenation: si‧nu‧ti

Verb

sínuti pf (Cyrillic spelling си́нути)

(intransitive) to begin to shine
(intransitive) to burst forth in splendor
(intransitive) to flash

Conjugation

Conjugation of sinuti

Infinitive: sinuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: sínūvši		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		sinem	sineš	sine	sinemo	sinete	sinu
Future	Future I	sinut ću¹ sinuću	sinut ćeš¹ sinućeš	sinut će¹ sinuće	sinut ćemo¹ sinućemo	sinut ćete¹ sinućete	sinut ćē¹ sinuće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm sinuo²	bȕdēš sinuo²	bȕdē sinuo²	bȕdēmo sinuli²	bȕdēte sinuli²	bȕdū sinuli²
Past	Perfect	sinuo sam²	sinuo si²	sinuo je²	sinuli smo²	sinuli ste²	sinuli su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam sinuo²	bȉo si sinuo²	bȉo je sinuo²	bíli smo sinuli²	bíli ste sinuli²	bíli su sinuli²
	Aorist	sinuh	sinu	sinu	sinusmo	sinuste	sinuše
Conditional I		sinuo bih²	sinuo bi²	sinuo bi²	sinuli bismo²	sinuli biste²	sinuli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih sinuo²	bȉo bi sinuo²	bȉo bi sinuo²	bíli bismo sinuli²	bíli biste sinuli²	bíli bi sinuli²
Imperative		—	sini	—	sinimo	sinite	—
Active past participle		sinuo m / sinula f / sinulo n			sinuli m / sinule f / sinula 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

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