spomenuti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• poménuti (Bosnia, Serbia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spoměːnuti/
• Hyphenation: spo‧me‧nu‧ti

Verb

spoménuti pf (Cyrillic spelling споме́нути)

1. (transitive) to mention

   Trebao sam to ranije spomenuti. ― I should have mentioned that earlier.

2. (archaic, reflexive) to remember

   Spomeni se da svetkuješ dan Gospodnji. ― Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Conjugation

Conjugation of spomenuti

Infinitive: spomenuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: spoménūvši		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		spomenem	spomeneš	spomene	spomenemo	spomenete	spomenu
Future	Future I	spomenut ću1 spomenuću	spomenut ćeš1 spomenućeš	spomenut će1 spomenuće	spomenut ćemo1 spomenućemo	spomenut ćete1 spomenućete	spomenut će1 spomenuće
	Future II	bȕdēm spomenuo2	bȕdēš spomenuo2	bȕdē spomenuo2	bȕdēmo spomenuli2	bȕdēte spomenuli2	bȕdū spomenuli2
Past	Perfect	spomenuo sam2	spomenuo si2	spomenuo je2	spomenuli smo2	spomenuli ste2	spomenuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam spomenuo2	bȉo si spomenuo2	bȉo je spomenuo2	bíli smo spomenuli2	bíli ste spomenuli2	bíli su spomenuli2
	Aorist	spomenuh	spomenu	spomenu	spomenusmo	spomenuste	spomenuše
Conditional I		spomenuo bih2	spomenuo bi2	spomenuo bi2	spomenuli bismo2	spomenuli biste2	spomenuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih spomenuo2	bȉo bi spomenuo2	bȉo bi spomenuo2	bíli bismo spomenuli2	bíli biste spomenuli2	bíli bi spomenuli2
Imperative		—	spomeni	—	spomenimo	spomenite	—
Active past participle		spomenuo m / spomenula f / spomenulo n			spomenuli m / spomenule f / spomenula n
Passive past participle		spomenut m / spomenuta f / spomenuto n			spomenuti m / spomenute f / spomenuta 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

• spòminjati impf

Further reading

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