kajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kajati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâjati/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ja‧ti

Verb

kȁjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ка̏јати)

1. (reflexive) to repent, regret, be sorry for

   Synonym: (Croatia) boliti

Conjugation

Conjugation of kajati

Infinitive: kajati		Present verbal adverb: kȁjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kȁjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kajem	kaješ	kaje	kajemo	kajete	kaju
Future	Future I	kajat ću1 kajaću	kajat ćeš1 kajaćeš	kajat će1 kajaće	kajat ćemo1 kajaćemo	kajat ćete1 kajaćete	kajat će1 kajaće
	Future II	bȕdēm kajao2	bȕdēš kajao2	bȕdē kajao2	bȕdēmo kajali2	bȕdēte kajali2	bȕdū kajali2
Past	Perfect	kajao sam2	kajao si2	kajao je2	kajali smo2	kajali ste2	kajali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kajao2	bȉo si kajao2	bȉo je kajao2	bíli smo kajali2	bíli ste kajali2	bíli su kajali2
	Imperfect	kajah	kajaše	kajaše	kajasmo	kajaste	kajahu
Conditional I		kajao bih2	kajao bi2	kajao bi2	kajali bismo2	kajali biste2	kajali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kajao2	bȉo bi kajao2	bȉo bi kajao2	bíli bismo kajali2	bíli biste kajali2	bíli bi kajali2
Imperative		—	kaj	—	kajmo	kajte	—
Active past participle		kajao m / kajala f / kajalo n			kajali m / kajale f / kajala 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

• “kajati” in Hrvatski jezični portal