umjeti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

ùmeti (Ekavian)

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ǔmjeti/
Hyphenation: u‧mje‧ti

Verb edit

ùmjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling у̀мјети)

(intransitive) to know how (to do something)

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of umjeti

Infinitive: umjeti		Present verbal adverb: ùmijūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ùmijēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		umijem	umiješ	umije	umijemo	umijete	umiju
Future	Future I	umjet ću¹ umjeću	umjet ćeš¹ umjećeš	umjet će¹ umjeće	umjet ćemo¹ umjećemo	umjet ćete¹ umjećete	umjet će¹ umjeće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm umio²	bȕdēš umio²	bȕdē umio²	bȕdēmo umjeli²	bȕdēte umjeli²	bȕdū umjeli²
Past	Perfect	umio sam²	umio si²	umio je²	umjeli smo²	umjeli ste²	umjeli su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam umio²	bȉo si umio²	bȉo je umio²	bíli smo umjeli²	bíli ste umjeli²	bíli su umjeli²
	Imperfect	umijah	umijaše	umijaše	umijasmo	umijaste	umijahu
Conditional I		umio bih²	umio bi²	umio bi²	umjeli bismo²	umjeli biste²	umjeli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih umio²	bȉo bi umio²	bȉo bi umio²	bíli bismo umjeli²	bíli biste umjeli²	bíli bi umjeli²
Imperative		—	umij	—	umijmo	umijte	—
Active past participle		umio m / umjela f / umjelo n			umjeli m / umjele f / umjela 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.