zijati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• zjȁti

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zijati (Russian зия́ть (zijátʹ)). Compare zijevati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: zi‧ja‧ti

Verb

zíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling зи́јати)

1. (intransitive) to stare, gape
2. (intransitive) to yawn, gape
3. (intransitive) to shout, yell

Conjugation

Conjugation of zijati

Infinitive: zijati		Present verbal adverb: zíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zijam	zijaš	zija	zijamo	zijate	zijaju
Future	Future I	zijat ću1 zijaću	zijat ćeš1 zijaćeš	zijat će1 zijaće	zijat ćemo1 zijaćemo	zijat ćete1 zijaćete	zijat će1 zijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zijao2	bȕdēš zijao2	bȕdē zijao2	bȕdēmo zijali2	bȕdēte zijali2	bȕdū zijali2
Past	Perfect	zijao sam2	zijao si2	zijao je2	zijali smo2	zijali ste2	zijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zijao2	bȉo si zijao2	bȉo je zijao2	bíli smo zijali2	bíli ste zijali2	bíli su zijali2
	Imperfect	zijah	zijaše	zijaše	zijasmo	zijaste	zijahu
Conditional I		zijao bih2	zijao bi2	zijao bi2	zijali bismo2	zijali biste2	zijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zijao2	bȉo bi zijao2	bȉo bi zijao2	bíli bismo zijali2	bíli biste zijali2	bíli bi zijali2
Imperative		—	zijaj	—	zijajmo	zijajte	—
Active past participle		zijao m / zijala f / zijalo n			zijali m / zijale f / zijala 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.

References

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