kenjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kěːɲati/
Hyphenation: ke‧nja‧ti

Verb

kénjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ке́њати)

(vulgar) to defecate
(vulgar) to talk nonsense; to annoy, bother with words

Conjugation

Conjugation of kenjati

Infinitive: kenjati		Present verbal adverb: kénjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kénjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kenjam	kenjaš	kenja	kenjamo	kenjate	kenjaju
Future	Future I	kenjat ću¹ kenjaću	kenjat ćeš¹ kenjaćeš	kenjat će¹ kenjaće	kenjat ćemo¹ kenjaćemo	kenjat ćete¹ kenjaćete	kenjat će¹ kenjaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm kenjao²	bȕdēš kenjao²	bȕdē kenjao²	bȕdēmo kenjali²	bȕdēte kenjali²	bȕdū kenjali²
Past	Perfect	kenjao sam²	kenjao si²	kenjao je²	kenjali smo²	kenjali ste²	kenjali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam kenjao²	bȉo si kenjao²	bȉo je kenjao²	bíli smo kenjali²	bíli ste kenjali²	bíli su kenjali²
	Imperfect	kenjah	kenjaše	kenjaše	kenjasmo	kenjaste	kenjahu
Conditional I		kenjao bih²	kenjao bi²	kenjao bi²	kenjali bismo²	kenjali biste²	kenjali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih kenjao²	bȉo bi kenjao²	bȉo bi kenjao²	bíli bismo kenjali²	bíli biste kenjali²	bíli bi kenjali²
Imperative		—	kenjaj	—	kenjajmo	kenjajte	—
Active past participle		kenjao m / kenjala f / kenjalo n			kenjali m / kenjale f / kenjala 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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