smišljati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smǐːʃʎati/
• Hyphenation: smi‧šlja‧ti

Verb

smíšljati impf (Cyrillic spelling сми́шљати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to come up with, think up, devise (plan, solution etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of smišljati

Infinitive: smišljati		Present verbal adverb: smíšljajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: smíšljānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		smišljam	smišljaš	smišlja	smišljamo	smišljate	smišljaju
Future	Future I	smišljat ću1 smišljaću	smišljat ćeš1 smišljaćeš	smišljat će1 smišljaće	smišljat ćemo1 smišljaćemo	smišljat ćete1 smišljaćete	smišljat će1 smišljaće
	Future II	bȕdēm smišljao2	bȕdēš smišljao2	bȕdē smišljao2	bȕdēmo smišljali2	bȕdēte smišljali2	bȕdū smišljali2
Past	Perfect	smišljao sam2	smišljao si2	smišljao je2	smišljali smo2	smišljali ste2	smišljali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam smišljao2	bȉo si smišljao2	bȉo je smišljao2	bíli smo smišljali2	bíli ste smišljali2	bíli su smišljali2
	Imperfect	smišljah	smišljaše	smišljaše	smišljasmo	smišljaste	smišljahu
Conditional I		smišljao bih2	smišljao bi2	smišljao bi2	smišljali bismo2	smišljali biste2	smišljali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih smišljao2	bȉo bi smišljao2	bȉo bi smišljao2	bíli bismo smišljali2	bíli biste smišljali2	bíli bi smišljali2
Imperative		—	smišljaj	—	smišljajmo	smišljajte	—
Active past participle		smišljao m / smišljala f / smišljalo n			smišljali m / smišljale f / smišljala n
Passive past participle		smišljan m / smišljana f / smišljano n			smišljani m / smišljane f / smišljana 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

• smȉsliti pf

Further reading

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