zinuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zinǫti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zînuti/
• Hyphenation: zi‧nu‧ti

Verb

zȉnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling зи̏нути)

1. (intransitive) to open one's mouth
2. (intransitive) to say something unintentionally
3. (intransitive) to gape, open, yawn (appear suddenly as a hole)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zinuti

Infinitive: zinuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: zȉnūvši		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		zinem	zineš	zine	zinemo	zinete	zinu
Future	Future I	zinut ću1 zinuću	zinut ćeš1 zinućeš	zinut će1 zinuće	zinut ćemo1 zinućemo	zinut ćete1 zinućete	zinut će1 zinuće
	Future II	bȕdēm zinuo2	bȕdēš zinuo2	bȕdē zinuo2	bȕdēmo zinuli2	bȕdēte zinuli2	bȕdū zinuli2
Past	Perfect	zinuo sam2	zinuo si2	zinuo je2	zinuli smo2	zinuli ste2	zinuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zinuo2	bȉo si zinuo2	bȉo je zinuo2	bíli smo zinuli2	bíli ste zinuli2	bíli su zinuli2
	Aorist	zinuh	zinu	zinu	zinusmo	zinuste	zinuše
Conditional I		zinuo bih2	zinuo bi2	zinuo bi2	zinuli bismo2	zinuli biste2	zinuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zinuo2	bȉo bi zinuo2	bȉo bi zinuo2	bíli bismo zinuli2	bíli biste zinuli2	bíli bi zinuli2
Imperative		—	zini	—	zinimo	zinite	—
Active past participle		zinuo m / zinula f / zinulo n			zinuli m / zinule f / zinula 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.

Further reading

• “zinuti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025