ženiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ženiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒěniti/
Hyphenation: že‧ni‧ti

Verb

žèniti impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐнити)

(transitive) to marry (a woman; to make one's wife)
(transitive) to marry off (a man)
(reflexive) to get married (of a man)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ženiti

Infinitive: ženiti		Present verbal adverb: žȅnēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: žȅnjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ženim	ženiš	ženi	ženimo	ženite	žene
Future	Future I	ženit ću¹ ženiću	ženit ćeš¹ ženićeš	ženit će¹ ženiće	ženit ćemo¹ ženićemo	ženit ćete¹ ženićete	ženit će¹ ženiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ženio²	bȕdēš ženio²	bȕdē ženio²	bȕdēmo ženili²	bȕdēte ženili²	bȕdū ženili²
Past	Perfect	ženio sam²	ženio si²	ženio je²	ženili smo²	ženili ste²	ženili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam ženio²	bȉo si ženio²	bȉo je ženio²	bíli smo ženili²	bíli ste ženili²	bíli su ženili²
	Imperfect	ženjah	ženjaše	ženjaše	ženjasmo	ženjaste	ženjahu
Conditional I		ženio bih²	ženio bi²	ženio bi²	ženili bismo²	ženili biste²	ženili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih ženio²	bȉo bi ženio²	bȉo bi ženio²	bíli bismo ženili²	bíli biste ženili²	bíli bi ženili²
Imperative		—	ženi	—	ženimo	ženite	—
Active past participle		ženio m / ženila f / ženilo n			ženili m / ženile f / ženila n
Passive past participle		ženjen m / ženjena f / ženjeno n			ženjeni m / ženjene f / ženjena 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.

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