goniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *goniti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gánīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-éye-ti, from *gʷʰen-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǒniti/
• Hyphenation: go‧ni‧ti

Verb

gòniti impf (Cyrillic spelling го̀нити)

1. (transitive) to chase, pursue
2. (transitive) to prosecute

Conjugation

Conjugation of goniti

infinitive		goniti
present verbal adverb		gȍnēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		gȍnjēnje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		gonim	goniš	goni	gonimo	gonite	gone
future	future I	gonit ću1 goniću	gonit ćeš1 gonićeš	gonit će1 goniće	gonit ćemo1 gonićemo	gonit ćete1 gonićete	gonit ćē1 goniće
	future II	bȕdēm gonio2	bȕdēš gonio2	bȕdē gonio2	bȕdēmo gonili2	bȕdēte gonili2	bȕdū gonili2
past	perfect	gonio sam2	gonio si2	gonio je2	gonili smo2	gonili ste2	gonili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam gonio2	bȉo si gonio2	bȉo je gonio2	bíli smo gonili2	bíli ste gonili2	bíli su gonili2
	imperfect	gonjah	gonjaše	gonjaše	gonjasmo	gonjaste	gonjahu
conditional	conditional I	gonio bih2	gonio bi2	gonio bi2	gonili bismo2	gonili biste2	gonili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih gonio2	bȉo bi gonio2	bȉo bi gonio2	bíli bismo gonili2	bíli biste gonili2	bíli bi gonili2
imperative		—	goni	—	gonimo	gonite	—
active past participle		gonio m / gonila f / gonilo n			gonili m / gonile f / gonila n
passive past participle		gonjen m / gonjena f / gonjeno n			gonjeni m / gonjene f / gonjena 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

• gónjati impf

Further reading

• “goniti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025