ženiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ženiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒěniti/
• Hyphenation: že‧ni‧ti

Verb

žèniti impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐнити)

1. (transitive) to marry (a woman; to make one's wife)
2. (transitive) to marry off (a man)
3. (reflexive) to get married (of a man)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ženiti

Infinitive: ženiti		Present verbal adverb: žȅnēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: žȅnjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ženim	ženiš	ženi	ženimo	ženite	žene
Future	Future I	ženit ću1 ženiću	ženit ćeš1 ženićeš	ženit će1 ženiće	ženit ćemo1 ženićemo	ženit ćete1 ženićete	ženit će1 ženiće
	Future II	bȕdēm ženio2	bȕdēš ženio2	bȕdē ženio2	bȕdēmo ženili2	bȕdēte ženili2	bȕdū ženili2
Past	Perfect	ženio sam2	ženio si2	ženio je2	ženili smo2	ženili ste2	ženili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ženio2	bȉo si ženio2	bȉo je ženio2	bíli smo ženili2	bíli ste ženili2	bíli su ženili2
	Imperfect	ženjah	ženjaše	ženjaše	ženjasmo	ženjaste	ženjahu
Conditional I		ženio bih2	ženio bi2	ženio bi2	ženili bismo2	ženili biste2	ženili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ženio2	bȉo bi ženio2	bȉo bi ženio2	bíli bismo ženili2	bíli biste ženili2	bíli bi ženili2
Imperative		—	ženi	—	ženimo	ženite	—
Active past participle		ženio m / ženila f / ženilo n			ženili m / ženile f / ženila n
Passive past participle		ženjen m / ženjena f / ženjeno n			ženjeni m / ženjene f / ženjena 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

• ožèniti
• požèniti
• prižèniti