umjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): ùmeti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔmjeti/
• Hyphenation: u‧mje‧ti

Verb

ùmjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling у̀мјети)

1. (intransitive) to know how (to do something)

Conjugation

Conjugation of umjeti

Infinitive: umjeti		Present verbal adverb: ùmijūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ùmijēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		umijem	umiješ	umije	umijemo	umijete	umiju
Future	Future I	umjet ću1 umjeću	umjet ćeš1 umjećeš	umjet će1 umjeće	umjet ćemo1 umjećemo	umjet ćete1 umjećete	umjet će1 umjeće
	Future II	bȕdēm umio2	bȕdēš umio2	bȕdē umio2	bȕdēmo umjeli2	bȕdēte umjeli2	bȕdū umjeli2
Past	Perfect	umio sam2	umio si2	umio je2	umjeli smo2	umjeli ste2	umjeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam umio2	bȉo si umio2	bȉo je umio2	bíli smo umjeli2	bíli ste umjeli2	bíli su umjeli2
	Imperfect	umijah	umijaše	umijaše	umijasmo	umijaste	umijahu
Conditional I		umio bih2	umio bi2	umio bi2	umjeli bismo2	umjeli biste2	umjeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih umio2	bȉo bi umio2	bȉo bi umio2	bíli bismo umjeli2	bíli biste umjeli2	bíli bi umjeli2
Imperative		—	umij	—	umijmo	umijte	—
Active past participle		umio m / umjela f / umjelo n			umjeli m / umjele f / umjela 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.