sklanjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sklâɲati/
• Hyphenation: skla‧nja‧ti

Verb

sklȁnjati impf (Cyrillic spelling скла̏њати)

1. (transitive) to put away, hide (something somewhere, in a safe place)
2. (transitive) to remove, eliminate (obstacle)
3. (transitive, reflexive) to shelter, find refuge
4. (reflexive) to make way, get out of the way

Conjugation

Conjugation of sklanjati

Infinitive: sklanjati		Present verbal adverb: sklȁnjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sklȁnjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sklanjam	sklanjaš	sklanja	sklanjamo	sklanjate	sklanjaju
Future	Future I	sklanjat ću1 sklanjaću	sklanjat ćeš1 sklanjaćeš	sklanjat će1 sklanjaće	sklanjat ćemo1 sklanjaćemo	sklanjat ćete1 sklanjaćete	sklanjat će1 sklanjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm sklanjao2	bȕdēš sklanjao2	bȕdē sklanjao2	bȕdēmo sklanjali2	bȕdēte sklanjali2	bȕdū sklanjali2
Past	Perfect	sklanjao sam2	sklanjao si2	sklanjao je2	sklanjali smo2	sklanjali ste2	sklanjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sklanjao2	bȉo si sklanjao2	bȉo je sklanjao2	bíli smo sklanjali2	bíli ste sklanjali2	bíli su sklanjali2
	Imperfect	sklanjah	sklanjaše	sklanjaše	sklanjasmo	sklanjaste	sklanjahu
Conditional I		sklanjao bih2	sklanjao bi2	sklanjao bi2	sklanjali bismo2	sklanjali biste2	sklanjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sklanjao2	bȉo bi sklanjao2	bȉo bi sklanjao2	bíli bismo sklanjali2	bíli biste sklanjali2	bíli bi sklanjali2
Imperative		—	sklanjaj	—	sklanjajmo	sklanjajte	—
Active past participle		sklanjao m / sklanjala f / sklanjalo n			sklanjali m / sklanjale f / sklanjala n
Passive past participle		sklanjan m / sklanjana f / sklanjano n			sklanjani m / sklanjane f / sklanjana 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

• sklòniti pf

Further reading

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