čekati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čekati (“to wait, await, expect”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʃêkati/
Hyphenation: če‧ka‧ti

Verb

čȅkati impf (Cyrillic spelling че̏кати)

(transitive, intransitive) to wait (for), await

Conjugation

Conjugation of čekati

Infinitive: čekati		Present verbal adverb: čȅkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: čȅkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		čekam	čekaš	čeka	čekamo	čekate	čekaju
Future	Future I	čekat ću¹ čekaću	čekat ćeš¹ čekaćeš	čekat će¹ čekaće	čekat ćemo¹ čekaćemo	čekat ćete¹ čekaćete	čekat će¹ čekaće
Future	Future II	budem čekao²	budeš čekao²	bude čekao²	budemo čekali²	budete čekali²	budu čekali²
Past	Perfect	čekao sam²	čekao si²	čekao je²	čekali smo²	čekali ste²	čekali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam čekao²	bio si čekao²	bio je čekao²	bili smo čekali²	bili ste čekali²	bili su čekali²
	Imperfect	čekah	čekaše	čekaše	čekasmo	čekaste	čekahu
Conditional I		čekao bih²	čekao bi²	čekao bi²	čekali bismo²	čekali biste²	čekali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih čekao²	bio bi čekao²	bio bi čekao²	bili bismo čekali²	bili biste čekali²	bili bi čekali²
Imperative		—	čekaj	—	čekajmo	čekajte	—
Active past participle		čekao m / čekala f / čekalo n			čekali m / čekale f / čekala n
Passive past participle		čekan m / čekana f / čekano n			čekani m / čekane f / čekana 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. * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

dòčekati
očekivati
pòčekati

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