umeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *uměti.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ǔmeti/
  • Hyphenation: u‧me‧ti

Verb

ùmeti impf (Cyrillic spelling у̀мети)

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

Conjugation
Conjugation of umeti
Infinitive: umeti Present verbal adverb: ùmejūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: ùmēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present umem umeš ume umemo umete umeju
Future Future I umet ću1
umeću		 umet ćeš1
umećeš		 umet će1
umeće		 umet ćemo1
umećemo		 umet ćete1
umećete		 umet će1
umeće
Future II bȕdēm umeo2 bȕdēš umeo2 bȕdē umeo2 bȕdēmo umeli2 bȕdēte umeli2 bȕdū umeli2
Past Perfect umeo sam2 umeo si2 umeo je2 umeli smo2 umeli ste2 umeli su2
Pluperfect3 bio sam umeo2 bio si umeo2 bio je umeo2 bili smo umeli2 bili ste umeli2 bili su umeli2
Imperfect umijah umijaše umijaše umijasmo umijaste umijahu
Conditional I umeo bih2 umeo bi2 umeo bi2 umeli bismo2 umeli biste2 umeli bi2
Conditional II4 bio bih umeo2 bio bi umeo2 bio bi umeo2 bili bismo umeli2 bili biste umeli2 bili bi umeli2
Imperative — umej — umejmo umejte —
Active past participle umeo m / umela f / umelo n umeli m / umele f / umela 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 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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *uměti.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /umèːti/

Verb

umẹ́ti impf or pf

  1. to understand, to grasp
  2. to know how, to be able

Inflection
infinitive umẹ́ti
1st singular ȗmem
infinitive umẹ́ti umet
supine umȅt, umẹ̑t
verbal noun umẹ̑tje
participle converb
present umȅč —
past úmljen —
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular umȅł, umẹ̑ł, úmeł umẹ̄la umẹ̄lo
dual umẹ̄la umẹ̄li umẹ̄li
plural umẹ̄li umẹ̄le umẹ̄la
present imperative
1st singular ȗmem —
2nd singular ȗmeš úmi
3rd singular ȗme —
1st dual ȗmeva úmiva, umȋva
2nd dual ȗmeta úmita, umȋta
3rd dual ȗmeta —
1st plural ȗmemo úmimo, umȋmo
2nd plural ȗmete úmite, umȋte
3rd plural ȗmejo —

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