mahnuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maxnǫti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎːxnuti/
• Hyphenation: mah‧nu‧ti

Verb

máhnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling ма́хнути)

1. (intransitive, with dative) to wave (with arm, tail, wing etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mahnuti

Infinitive: mahnuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: máhnūvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mahnem	mahneš	mahne	mahnemo	mahnete	mahnu
Future	Future I	mahnut ću1 mahnuću	mahnut ćeš1 mahnućeš	mahnut će1 mahnuće	mahnut ćemo1 mahnućemo	mahnut ćete1 mahnućete	mahnut će1 mahnuće
	Future II	bȕdēm mahnuo2	bȕdēš mahnuo2	bȕdē mahnuo2	bȕdēmo mahnuli2	bȕdēte mahnuli2	bȕdū mahnuli2
Past	Perfect	mahnuo sam2	mahnuo si2	mahnuo je2	mahnuli smo2	mahnuli ste2	mahnuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam mahnuo2	bȉo si mahnuo2	bȉo je mahnuo2	bíli smo mahnuli2	bíli ste mahnuli2	bíli su mahnuli2
	Aorist	mahnuh	mahnu	mahnu	mahnusmo	mahnuste	mahnuše
Conditional I		mahnuo bih2	mahnuo bi2	mahnuo bi2	mahnuli bismo2	mahnuli biste2	mahnuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih mahnuo2	bȉo bi mahnuo2	bȉo bi mahnuo2	bíli bismo mahnuli2	bíli biste mahnuli2	bíli bi mahnuli2
Imperative		—	mahni	—	mahnimo	mahnite	—
Active past participle		mahnuo m / mahnula f / mahnulo n			mahnuli m / mahnule f / mahnula 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.

Related terms

• máhati impf

Further reading

• “mahnuti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025