gonjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡǒːɲati/

Verb

gónjati impf (Cyrillic spelling го́њати, perfective goniti)

  1. to chase in all directions

Conjugation

Conjugation of gonjati
infinitive gonjati
present verbal adverb gónjajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun gónjānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present gonjam gonjaš gonja gonjamo gonjate gonjaju
future future I gonjat ću1
gonjaću
gonjat ćeš1
gonjaćeš
gonjat će1
gonjaće
gonjat ćemo1
gonjaćemo
gonjat ćete1
gonjaćete
gonjat ćē1
gonjaće
future II bȕdēm gonjao2 bȕdēš gonjao2 bȕdē gonjao2 bȕdēmo gonjali2 bȕdēte gonjali2 bȕdū gonjali2
past perfect gonjao sam2 gonjao si2 gonjao je2 gonjali smo2 gonjali ste2 gonjali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam gonjao2 bȉo si gonjao2 bȉo je gonjao2 bíli smo gonjali2 bíli ste gonjali2 bíli su gonjali2
imperfect gonjah gonjaše gonjaše gonjasmo gonjaste gonjahu
conditional conditional I gonjao bih2 gonjao bi2 gonjao bi2 gonjali bismo2 gonjali biste2 gonjali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih gonjao2 bȉo bi gonjao2 bȉo bi gonjao2 bíli bismo gonjali2 bíli biste gonjali2 bíli bi gonjali2
imperative gonjaj gonjajmo gonjajte
active past participle gonjao m / gonjala f / gonjalo n gonjali m / gonjale f / gonjala n
passive past participle gonjan m / gonjana f / gonjano n gonjani m / gonjane f / gonjana 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.

Further reading

  • gonjati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026