ginuti

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 2 October 2022

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gybnǫti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡînuti/
• Hyphenation: gi‧nu‧ti

Verb

gȉnuti impf (Cyrillic spelling ги̏нути)

1. (intransitive) to be killed, perish (usually in a war or an accident)
   • 1380, N. N., “ⱄⱅ꙯ꙿ ⱄⰵ ⰽⱁⱀꙿⱍⰰ” in the Paris Miscellany of 1380 (Code slave 11), folio 189b et seq.:

     ⱄⱅ꙯ꙿ ⱄⰵ ⰽⱁⱀꙿⱍⰰ ⰻ ⱄⰾꙿⱀꙿⱌⰵ ⱓⱃꙿ ⰸⰰⱈⱁⰴⰻ ·
     ⱂⱃⰲ꙯ⰴⰰ ⰳⰻⱀⰵ ⰾⱓⰱꙿⰲⱜ ⱄꙿⱅⰻⱀⰵ · ⱅⱞⰰ ⰻⱄⱈⱁⰴⰻ ·

     s(vě)t’ se kon’ča i sl’n’ce jur’ zahodi ·
     pr(a)vda gine ljub’v s’tine · tma ishodi ·

     The world is ending, and the sun is already setting:
     justice perishes, love congeals, darkness comes forth.

2. (intransitive) to long for, dream of; languish, sigh

Conjugation

Conjugation of ginuti

Infinitive: ginuti		Present verbal adverb: ginući		Past verbal adverb: —		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		ginem	gineš	gine	ginemo	ginete	ginu
Future	Future I	ginut ću1 ginuću	ginut ćeš1 ginućeš	ginut će1 ginuće	ginut ćemo1 ginućemo	ginut ćete1 ginućete	ginut će1 ginuće
	Future II	bȕdēm ginuo2	bȕdēš ginuo2	bȕdē ginuo2	bȕdēmo ginuli2	bȕdēte ginuli2	bȕdū ginuli2
Past	Perfect	ginuo sam2	ginuo si2	ginuo je2	ginuli smo2	ginuli ste2	ginuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ginuo2	bȉo si ginuo2	bȉo je ginuo2	bíli smo ginuli2	bíli ste ginuli2	bíli su ginuli2
	Imperfect	ginjah	ginjaše	ginjaše	ginjasmo	ginjaste	ginjahu
Conditional I		ginuo bih2	ginuo bi2	ginuo bi2	ginuli bismo2	ginuli biste2	ginuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ginuo2	bȉo bi ginuo2	bȉo bi ginuo2	bíli bismo ginuli2	bíli biste ginuli2	bíli bi ginuli2
Imperative		—	gini	—	ginimo	ginite	—
Active past participle		ginuo m / ginula f / ginulo n			ginuli m / ginule f / ginula 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.

Derived terms

• ìzginuti
• pòginuti
• ùginuti