cerekati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ceriti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡serěkati/
Hyphenation: ce‧re‧ka‧ti

Verb

cerèkati impf (Cyrillic spelling церѐкати)

(reflexive) to snicker, snigger, titter, laugh derisively or unpleasantly

Conjugation

Conjugation of cerekati

Infinitive: cerekati		Present verbal adverb: cerèkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cerèkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cerekam	cerekaš	cereka	cerekamo	cerekate	cerekaju
Future	Future I	cerekat ću¹ cerekaću	cerekat ćeš¹ cerekaćeš	cerekat će¹ cerekaće	cerekat ćemo¹ cerekaćemo	cerekat ćete¹ cerekaćete	cerekat će¹ cerekaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm cerekao²	bȕdēš cerekao²	bȕdē cerekao²	bȕdēmo cerekali²	bȕdēte cerekali²	bȕdū cerekali²
Past	Perfect	cerekao sam²	cerekao si²	cerekao je²	cerekali smo²	cerekali ste²	cerekali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam cerekao²	bȉo si cerekao²	bȉo je cerekao²	bíli smo cerekali²	bíli ste cerekali²	bíli su cerekali²
	Imperfect	cerekah	cerekaše	cerekaše	cerekasmo	cerekaste	cerekahu
Conditional I		cerekao bih²	cerekao bi²	cerekao bi²	cerekali bismo²	cerekali biste²	cerekali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih cerekao²	bȉo bi cerekao²	bȉo bi cerekao²	bíli bismo cerekali²	bíli biste cerekali²	bíli bi cerekali²
Imperative		—	cerekaj	—	cerekajmo	cerekajte	—
Active past participle		cerekao m / cerekala f / cerekalo n			cerekali m / cerekale f / cerekala 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

“cerekati” in Hrvatski jezični portal