čehati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čexati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃěxati/

Verb

čèhati impf (Cyrillic spelling чѐхати)

to tear off, to rip off

Conjugation

Conjugation of *čehati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		čehati
present verbal adverb		čèhajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		čèhānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		čèhām	čehaš	čeha	čehamo	čehate	čehaju
future	future I	čehat ću¹ čehaću	čehat ćeš¹ čehaćeš	čehat će¹ čehaće	čehat ćemo¹ čehaćemo	čehat ćete¹ čehaćete	čehat ćе̄¹ čehaće
future	future II	bȕdēm čehao²	bȕdēš čehao²	bȕdē čehao²	bȕdēmo čehali²	bȕdēte čehali²	bȕdū čehali²
past	perfect	čehao sam²	čehao si²	čehao je²	čehali smo²	čehali ste²	čehali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam čehao²	bȉo si čehao²	bȉo je čehao²	bíli smo čehali²	bíli ste čehali²	bíli su čehali²
	imperfect	čehah	čehaše	čehaše	čehasmo	čehaste	čehahu
conditional	conditional I	čehao bih²	čehao bi²	čehao bi²	čehali bismo²	čehali biste²	čehali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih čehao²	bȉo bi čehao²	bȉo bi čehao²	bíli bismo čehali²	bíli biste čehali²	bíli bi čehali²
imperative		—	čehaj	—	čehajmo	čehajte	—
active past participle		čehao m / čehala f / čehalo n			čehali m / čehale f / čehala n
passive past participle		čehan m / čehana f / čehano n			čehani m / čehane f / čehana 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

čèhulja (“raceme; cicely, Myrrhis odorata”)

References

“čehati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
“čehati”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика [Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање [Second Phototype Edition], volume 6, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1976, published 1990, page 873