zaklinjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zǎkliɲati/
• Hyphenation: za‧kli‧nja‧ti

Verb

zàklinjati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀клињати)

1. (reflexive) to swear (take an oath)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zaklinjati

Infinitive: zaklinjati		Present verbal adverb: zàklinjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zàklinjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zaklinjem	zaklinješ	zaklinje	zaklinjemo	zaklinjete	zaklinju
Future	Future I	zaklinjat ću1 zaklinjaću	zaklinjat ćeš1 zaklinjaćeš	zaklinjat će1 zaklinjaće	zaklinjat ćemo1 zaklinjaćemo	zaklinjat ćete1 zaklinjaćete	zaklinjat će1 zaklinjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zaklinjao2	bȕdēš zaklinjao2	bȕdē zaklinjao2	bȕdēmo zaklinjali2	bȕdēte zaklinjali2	bȕdū zaklinjali2
Past	Perfect	zaklinjao sam2	zaklinjao si2	zaklinjao je2	zaklinjali smo2	zaklinjali ste2	zaklinjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zaklinjao2	bȉo si zaklinjao2	bȉo je zaklinjao2	bíli smo zaklinjali2	bíli ste zaklinjali2	bíli su zaklinjali2
	Imperfect	zaklinjah	zaklinjaše	zaklinjaše	zaklinjasmo	zaklinjaste	zaklinjahu
Conditional I		zaklinjao bih2	zaklinjao bi2	zaklinjao bi2	zaklinjali bismo2	zaklinjali biste2	zaklinjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zaklinjao2	bȉo bi zaklinjao2	bȉo bi zaklinjao2	bíli bismo zaklinjali2	bíli biste zaklinjali2	bíli bi zaklinjali2
Imperative		—	zaklinji	—	zaklinjimo	zaklinjite	—
Active past participle		zaklinjao m / zaklinjala f / zaklinjalo n			zaklinjali m / zaklinjale f / zaklinjala 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

• zàklēti pf

Further reading

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