brujati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *brujati. Of onomatopoeic origin; compare dialectal Russian бруя́ть (brujátʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brǔːjati/
• Hyphenation: bru‧ja‧ti

Verb

brújati impf (Cyrillic spelling бру́јати)

1. (intransitive) to drone, hum, sizzle, hiss

Conjugation

Conjugation of brujati

infinitive		brujati
present verbal adverb		brújēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		brújānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		brujim	brujiš	bruji	brujimo	brujite	bruje
future	future I	brujat ću1 brujaću	brujat ćeš1 brujaćeš	brujat će1 brujaće	brujat ćemo1 brujaćemo	brujat ćete1 brujaćete	brujat ćē1 brujaće
	future II	bȕdēm brujao2	bȕdēš brujao2	bȕdē brujao2	bȕdēmo brujali2	bȕdēte brujali2	bȕdū brujali2
past	perfect	brujao sam2	brujao si2	brujao je2	brujali smo2	brujali ste2	brujali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam brujao2	bȉo si brujao2	bȉo je brujao2	bíli smo brujali2	bíli ste brujali2	bíli su brujali2
	imperfect	brujah	brujaše	brujaše	brujasmo	brujaste	brujahu
conditional	conditional I	brujao bih2	brujao bi2	brujao bi2	brujali bismo2	brujali biste2	brujali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih brujao2	bȉo bi brujao2	bȉo bi brujao2	bíli bismo brujali2	bíli biste brujali2	bíli bi brujali2
imperative		—	bruji	—	brujimo	brujite	—
active past participle		brujao m / brujala f / brujalo n			brujali m / brujale f / brujala 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

• Đuro Daničić, editor (1880–1882), “brújati, brújȋm”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 684
• “brujati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025