lijeniti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

léniti (Ekavian)

Etymology

From lijȇn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lijěːniti/
Hyphenation: li‧je‧ni‧ti

Verb

lijéniti impf (Cyrillic spelling лије́нити)

(reflexive) to become (more) lazy

Conjugation

Conjugation of lijeniti

Infinitive: lijeniti		Present verbal adverb: lijénēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lijénjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		lijenim	lijeniš	lijeni	lijenimo	lijenite	lijene
Future	Future I	lijenit ću¹ lijeniću	lijenit ćeš¹ lijenićeš	lijenit će¹ lijeniće	lijenit ćemo¹ lijenićemo	lijenit ćete¹ lijenićete	lijenit će¹ lijeniće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm lijenio²	bȕdēš lijenio²	bȕdē lijenio²	bȕdēmo lijenili²	bȕdēte lijenili²	bȕdū lijenili²
Past	Perfect	lijenio sam²	lijenio si²	lijenio je²	lijenili smo²	lijenili ste²	lijenili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam lijenio²	bȉo si lijenio²	bȉo je lijenio²	bíli smo lijenili²	bíli ste lijenili²	bíli su lijenili²
	Imperfect	lijenjah	lijenjaše	lijenjaše	lijenjasmo	lijenjaste	lijenjahu
Conditional I		lijenio bih²	lijenio bi²	lijenio bi²	lijenili bismo²	lijenili biste²	lijenili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih lijenio²	bȉo bi lijenio²	bȉo bi lijenio²	bíli bismo lijenili²	bíli biste lijenili²	bíli bi lijenili²
Imperative		—	lijeni	—	lijenimo	lijenite	—
Active past participle		lijenio m / lijenila f / lijenilo n			lijenili m / lijenile f / lijenila 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

“lijeniti” in Hrvatski jezični portal