cerekati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ceriti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡serěkati/
• Hyphenation: ce‧re‧ka‧ti

Verb

cerèkati impf (Cyrillic spelling церѐкати)

1. (reflexive) to snicker, snigger, titter, laugh derisively or unpleasantly

Conjugation

Conjugation of cerekati

Infinitive: cerekati		Present verbal adverb: cerèkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cerèkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cerekam	cerekaš	cereka	cerekamo	cerekate	cerekaju
Future	Future I	cerekat ću1 cerekaću	cerekat ćeš1 cerekaćeš	cerekat će1 cerekaće	cerekat ćemo1 cerekaćemo	cerekat ćete1 cerekaćete	cerekat će1 cerekaće
	Future II	bȕdēm cerekao2	bȕdēš cerekao2	bȕdē cerekao2	bȕdēmo cerekali2	bȕdēte cerekali2	bȕdū cerekali2
Past	Perfect	cerekao sam2	cerekao si2	cerekao je2	cerekali smo2	cerekali ste2	cerekali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam cerekao2	bȉo si cerekao2	bȉo je cerekao2	bíli smo cerekali2	bíli ste cerekali2	bíli su cerekali2
	Imperfect	cerekah	cerekaše	cerekaše	cerekasmo	cerekaste	cerekahu
Conditional I		cerekao bih2	cerekao bi2	cerekao bi2	cerekali bismo2	cerekali biste2	cerekali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih cerekao2	bȉo bi cerekao2	bȉo bi cerekao2	bíli bismo cerekali2	bíli biste cerekali2	bíli bi cerekali2
Imperative		—	cerekaj	—	cerekajmo	cerekajte	—
Active past participle		cerekao m / cerekala f / cerekalo n			cerekali m / cerekale f / cerekala 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.

References

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