ceniti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• cijéniti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěniti, see also cena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sěːniti/
• Hyphenation: ce‧ni‧ti

Verb

céniti impf (Cyrillic spelling це́нити)

1. (transitive) to value, appreciate
2. (transitive) to estimate, appraise
3. (transitive) to respect

Conjugation

Conjugation of ceniti

Infinitive: ceniti		Present verbal adverb: cénēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cénjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cenim	ceniš	ceni	cenimo	cenite	cene
Future	Future I	cenit ću1 ceniću	cenit ćeš1 cenićeš	cenit će1 ceniće	cenit ćemo1 cenićemo	cenit ćete1 cenićete	cenit će1 ceniće
	Future II	bȕdēm cenio2	bȕdēš cenio2	bȕdē cenio2	bȕdēmo cenili2	bȕdēte cenili2	bȕdū cenili2
Past	Perfect	cenio sam2	cenio si2	cenio je2	cenili smo2	cenili ste2	cenili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam cenio2	bȉo si cenio2	bȉo je cenio2	bíli smo cenili2	bíli ste cenili2	bíli su cenili2
	Imperfect	cenjah	cenjaše	cenjaše	cenjasmo	cenjaste	cenjahu
Conditional I		cenio bih2	cenio bi2	cenio bi2	cenili bismo2	cenili biste2	cenili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih cenio2	bȉo bi cenio2	bȉo bi cenio2	bíli bismo cenili2	bíli biste cenili2	bíli bi cenili2
Imperative		—	ceni	—	cenimo	cenite	—
Active past participle		cenio m / cenila f / cenilo n			cenili m / cenile f / cenila n
Passive past participle		cenjen m / cenjena f / cenjeno n			cenjeni m / cenjene f / cenjena 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

• podcéniti
• precéniti
• procéniti
• océniti