kenjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kěːɲati/
• Hyphenation: ke‧nja‧ti

Verb

kénjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ке́њати)

1. (vulgar) to defecate
2. (vulgar) to talk nonsense; to annoy, bother with words

Conjugation

Conjugation of kenjati

Infinitive: kenjati		Present verbal adverb: kénjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kénjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kenjam	kenjaš	kenja	kenjamo	kenjate	kenjaju
Future	Future I	kenjat ću1 kenjaću	kenjat ćeš1 kenjaćeš	kenjat će1 kenjaće	kenjat ćemo1 kenjaćemo	kenjat ćete1 kenjaćete	kenjat će1 kenjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm kenjao2	bȕdēš kenjao2	bȕdē kenjao2	bȕdēmo kenjali2	bȕdēte kenjali2	bȕdū kenjali2
Past	Perfect	kenjao sam2	kenjao si2	kenjao je2	kenjali smo2	kenjali ste2	kenjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kenjao2	bȉo si kenjao2	bȉo je kenjao2	bíli smo kenjali2	bíli ste kenjali2	bíli su kenjali2
	Imperfect	kenjah	kenjaše	kenjaše	kenjasmo	kenjaste	kenjahu
Conditional I		kenjao bih2	kenjao bi2	kenjao bi2	kenjali bismo2	kenjali biste2	kenjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kenjao2	bȉo bi kenjao2	bȉo bi kenjao2	bíli bismo kenjali2	bíli biste kenjali2	bíli bi kenjali2
Imperative		—	kenjaj	—	kenjajmo	kenjajte	—
Active past participle		kenjao m / kenjala f / kenjalo n			kenjali m / kenjale f / kenjala 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

• pokénjati
• Kenjada