kaniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kaniti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǎːniti/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ni‧ti

Verb

kániti impf (Cyrillic spelling ка́нити)

1. (intransitive) to intend

Conjugation

Conjugation of kaniti

Infinitive: kaniti		Present verbal adverb: kánēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kánjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kanim	kaniš	kani	kanimo	kanite	kane
Future	Future I	kanit ću1 kaniću	kanit ćeš1 kanićeš	kanit će1 kaniće	kanit ćemo1 kanićemo	kanit ćete1 kanićete	kanit će1 kaniće
	Future II	bȕdēm kanio2	bȕdēš kanio2	bȕdē kanio2	bȕdēmo kanili2	bȕdēte kanili2	bȕdū kanili2
Past	Perfect	kanio sam2	kanio si2	kanio je2	kanili smo2	kanili ste2	kanili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kanio2	bȉo si kanio2	bȉo je kanio2	bíli smo kanili2	bíli ste kanili2	bíli su kanili2
	Imperfect	kanjah	kanjaše	kanjaše	kanjasmo	kanjaste	kanjahu
Conditional I		kanio bih2	kanio bi2	kanio bi2	kanili bismo2	kanili biste2	kanili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kanio2	bȉo bi kanio2	bȉo bi kanio2	bíli bismo kanili2	bíli biste kanili2	bíli bi kanili2
Imperative		—	kani	—	kanimo	kanite	—
Active past participle		kanio m / kanila f / kanilo n			kanili m / kanile f / kanila 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

• nakániti
• okániti

Further reading

• “kaniti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024