kijati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• kihati

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kyxati.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ki‧ja‧ti

Verb

kíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ки́јати)

1. (intransitive) to sneeze

Conjugation

Conjugation of kijati

Infinitive: kijati		Present verbal adverb: kijajući		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kijam	kijaš	kija	kijamo	kijate	kijaju
Future	Future I	kijat ću1 kijaću	kijat ćeš1 kijaćeš	kijat će1 kijaće	kijat ćemo1 kijaćemo	kijat ćete1 kijaćete	kijat će1 kijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm kijao2	bȕdēš kijao2	bȕdē kijao2	bȕdēmo kijali2	bȕdēte kijali2	bȕdū kijali2
Past	Perfect	kijao sam2	kijao si2	kijao je2	kijali smo2	kijali ste2	kijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kijao2	bȉo si kijao2	bȉo je kijao2	bíli smo kijali2	bíli ste kijali2	bíli su kijali2
	Imperfect	kijah	kijaše	kijaše	kijasmo	kijaste	kijahu
Conditional I		kijao bih2	kijao bi2	kijao bi2	kijali bismo2	kijali biste2	kijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kijao2	bȉo bi kijao2	bȉo bi kijao2	bíli bismo kijali2	bíli biste kijali2	bíli bi kijali2
Imperative		—	kijaj	—	kijajm	kijajte	—
Active past participle		kijao m / kijala f / kijalo n			kijali m / kijale f / kijala 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.

Related terms

• kínuti / kíhnuti pf