smejati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• smìjati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *smьjati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smějati/
• Hyphenation: sme‧ja‧ti

Verb

smèjati impf (Cyrillic spelling смѐјати)

1. (reflexive) to laugh

   Dan mi se smije i sunce me grije. - The day laughs at me and the sun warms me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of smejati

Infinitive: smejati		Present verbal adverb: sméjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: smèjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		smejem	smeješ	smeje	smejemo	smejete	smeju
Future	Future I	smejat ću1 smejaću	smejat ćeš1 smejaćeš	smejat će1 smejaće	smejat ćemo1 smejaćemo	smejat ćete1 smejaćete	smejat će1 smejaće
	Future II	bȕdēm smejao2	bȕdēš smejao2	bȕdē smejao2	bȕdēmo smejali2	bȕdēte smejali2	bȕdū smejali2
Past	Perfect	smejao sam2	smejao si2	smejao je2	smejali smo2	smejali ste2	smejali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam smejao2	bȉo si smejao2	bȉo je smejao2	bíli smo smejali2	bíli ste smejali2	bíli su smejali2
	Imperfect	smejah	smejaše	smejaše	smejasmo	smejaste	smejahu
Conditional I		smejao bih2	smejao bi2	smejao bi2	smejali bismo2	smejali biste2	smejali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih smejao2	bȉo bi smejao2	bȉo bi smejao2	bíli bismo smejali2	bíli biste smejali2	bíli bi smejali2
Imperative		—	smej	—	smejmo	smejte	—
Active past participle		smejao m / smejala f / smejalo n			smejali m / smejale f / smejala 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

• ismejati
• nasmejati
• zasmejati

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *smьjati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɛjàːti/

Verb

smejáti impf

1. (reflexive) to laugh

   Ne smej se! ― Don't laugh!

Inflection

-Vjati -Vjem or -ati -im
infinitive	smejáti
1st singular	sméjem, smejím
infinitive	smejáti			smejat
supine	smejȃt, sméjat
verbal noun	smejȃnje
	participle			converb
present	smejọ̄č			smejȃje
past	—			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	smejȃł, sméjał		smejāla		smejālo
dual	smejāla		smejāli		smejāli
plural	smejāli		smejāle		smejāla
	present			imperative
1st singular	sméjem, smejím			—
2nd singular	sméješ, smejíš			smȅj, smēj
3rd singular	sméje, smejí			—
1st dual	sméjeva, smejíva			smȇjva
2nd dual	sméjeta, smejíta			smȇjta
3rd dual	sméjeta, smejíta			—
1st plural	sméjemo, smejímo			smȇjmo
2nd plural	sméjete, smejíte			smȇjte
3rd plural	sméjejo, smejíjo			—

Derived terms

• nasmejáti
• zasmejáti

Further reading

• “smejati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024