nijekati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nijěːkati/
Hyphenation: ni‧je‧ka‧ti

Verb

nijékati impf (Cyrillic spelling није́кати)

(transitive, Croatia) to deny

Conjugation

Conjugation of nijekati

Infinitive: nijekati		Present verbal adverb: nijéčūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: nijékānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		niječem	niječeš	niječe	niječemo	niječete	niječu
Future	Future I	nijekat ću¹ nijekaću	nijekat ćeš¹ nijekaćeš	nijekat će¹ nijekaće	nijekat ćemo¹ nijekaćemo	nijekat ćete¹ nijekaćete	nijekat će¹ nijekaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm nijekao²	bȕdēš nijekao²	bȕdē nijekao²	bȕdēmo nijekali²	bȕdēte nijekali²	bȕdū nijekali²
Past	Perfect	nijekao sam²	nijekao si²	nijekao je²	nijekali smo²	nijekali ste²	nijekali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam nijekao²	bȉo si nijekao²	bȉo je nijekao²	bíli smo nijekali²	bíli ste nijekali²	bíli su nijekali²
	Imperfect	nijekah	nijekaše	nijekaše	nijekasmo	nijekaste	nijekahu
Conditional I		nijekao bih²	nijekao bi²	nijekao bi²	nijekali bismo²	nijekali biste²	nijekali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih nijekao²	bȉo bi nijekao²	bȉo bi nijekao²	bíli bismo nijekali²	bíli biste nijekali²	bíli bi nijekali²
Imperative		—	niječi	—	niječimo	niječite	—
Active past participle		nijekao m / nijekala f / nijekalo n			nijekali m / nijekale f / nijekala n
Passive past participle		nijekan m / nijekana f / nijekano n			nijekani m / nijekane f / nijekana 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

zanijékati