skloniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ klòniti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sklǒniti/
• Hyphenation: sklo‧ni‧ti

Verb

sklòniti pf (Cyrillic spelling скло̀нити)

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 skloniti

Infinitive: skloniti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: sklònīvši		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		sklonim	skloniš	skloni	sklonimo	sklonite	sklone
Future	Future I	sklonit ću1 skloniću	sklonit ćeš1 sklonićeš	sklonit će1 skloniće	sklonit ćemo1 sklonićemo	sklonit ćete1 sklonićete	sklonit će1 skloniće
	Future II	bȕdēm sklonio2	bȕdēš sklonio2	bȕdē sklonio2	bȕdēmo sklonili2	bȕdēte sklonili2	bȕdū sklonili2
Past	Perfect	sklonio sam2	sklonio si2	sklonio je2	sklonili smo2	sklonili ste2	sklonili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sklonio2	bȉo si sklonio2	bȉo je sklonio2	bíli smo sklonili2	bíli ste sklonili2	bíli su sklonili2
	Aorist	sklonih	skloni	skloni	sklonismo	skloniste	skloniše
Conditional I		sklonio bih2	sklonio bi2	sklonio bi2	sklonili bismo2	sklonili biste2	sklonili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sklonio2	bȉo bi sklonio2	bȉo bi sklonio2	bíli bismo sklonili2	bíli biste sklonili2	bíli bi sklonili2
Imperative		—	skloni	—	sklonimo	sklonite	—
Active past participle		sklonio m / sklonila f / sklonilo n			sklonili m / sklonile f / sklonila n
Passive past participle		sklonjen m / sklonjena f / sklonjeno n			sklonjeni m / sklonjene f / sklonjena 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.

Derived terms

• sklònidba

Related terms

• sklȁnjati impf

Further reading

• “skloniti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024