zijevnuti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• zévnuti (Ekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zjěːʋnuti/
• Hyphenation: zijev‧nu‧ti

Verb

zijévnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling зије́внути)

1. (intransitive) to yawn

Conjugation

Conjugation of zijevnuti

Infinitive: zijevnuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: zijévnūvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zijevnem	zijevneš	zijevne	zijevnemo	zijevnete	zijevnu
Future	Future I	zijevnut ću1 zijevnuću	zijevnut ćeš1 zijevnućeš	zijevnut će1 zijevnuće	zijevnut ćemo1 zijevnućemo	zijevnut ćete1 zijevnućete	zijevnut će1 zijevnuće
	Future II	bȕdēm zijevnuo2	bȕdēš zijevnuo2	bȕdē zijevnuo2	bȕdēmo zijevnuli2	bȕdēte zijevnuli2	bȕdū zijevnuli2
Past	Perfect	zijevnuo sam2	zijevnuo si2	zijevnuo je2	zijevnuli smo2	zijevnuli ste2	zijevnuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zijevnuo2	bȉo si zijevnuo2	bȉo je zijevnuo2	bíli smo zijevnuli2	bíli ste zijevnuli2	bíli su zijevnuli2
	Aorist	zijevnuh	zijevnu	zijevnu	zijevnusmo	zijevnuste	zijevnuše
Conditional I		zijevnuo bih2	zijevnuo bi2	zijevnuo bi2	zijevnuli bismo2	zijevnuli biste2	zijevnuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zijevnuo2	bȉo bi zijevnuo2	bȉo bi zijevnuo2	bíli bismo zijevnuli2	bíli biste zijevnuli2	bíli bi zijevnuli2
Imperative		—	zijevni	—	zijevnimo	zijevnite	—
Active past participle		zijevnuo m / zijevnula f / zijevnulo n			zijevnuli m / zijevnule f / zijevnula 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

• zijévati impf

Further reading

• “zijevnuti” in Hrvatski jezični portal