ćutati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /t͡ɕǔːtati/
Hyphenation: ću‧ta‧ti

Verb edit

ćútati impf (Cyrillic spelling ћу́тати)

(Bosnia, Serbia) to be silent, to shut up

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of ćutati

Infinitive: ćutati		Present verbal adverb: ćútēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ćútānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ćutim	ćutiš	ćuti	ćutimo	ćutite	ćute
Future	Future I	ćutat ću¹ ćutaću	ćutat ćeš¹ ćutaćeš	ćutat će¹ ćutaće	ćutat ćemo¹ ćutaćemo	ćutat ćete¹ ćutaćete	ćutat će¹ ćutaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ćutao²	bȕdēš ćutao²	bȕdē ćutao²	bȕdēmo ćutali²	bȕdēte ćutali²	bȕdū ćutali²
Past	Perfect	ćutao sam²	ćutao si²	ćutao je²	ćutali smo²	ćutali ste²	ćutali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam ćutao²	bȉo si ćutao²	bȉo je ćutao²	bíli smo ćutali²	bíli ste ćutali²	bíli su ćutali²
	Imperfect	ćućah	ćućaše	ćućaše	ćućasmo	ćućaste	ćućahu
Conditional I		ćutao bih²	ćutao bi²	ćutao bi²	ćutali bismo²	ćutali biste²	ćutali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih ćutao²	bȉo bi ćutao²	bȉo bi ćutao²	bíli bismo ćutali²	bíli biste ćutali²	bíli bi ćutali²
Imperative		—	ćuti	—	ćutimo	ćutite	—
Active past participle		ćutao m / ćutala f / ćutalo n			ćutali m / ćutale f / ćutala 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.

Synonyms edit

ćútjeti, šútjeti (Croatian)

References edit

“ćutati” in Hrvatski jezični portal