lajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *làjati.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lâjati/
  • Hyphenation: la‧ja‧ti

Verb

lȁjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ла̏јати)

  1. (intransitive) to bark, yelp (of dogs)
  2. (figuratively) to yap, to babble

Conjugation
Conjugation of lajati
Infinitive: lajati Present verbal adverb: lȁjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: lȁjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present lajem laješ laje lajemo lajete laju
Future Future I lajat ću1
lajaću		 lajat ćeš1
lajaćeš		 lajat će1
lajaće		 lajat ćemo1
lajaćemo		 lajat ćete1
lajaćete		 lajat će1
lajaće
Future II budem lajao2 budeš lajao2 bude lajao2 budemo lajali2 budete lajali2 budu lajali2
Past Perfect lajao sam2 lajao si2 lajao je2 lajali smo2 lajali ste2 lajali su2
Pluperfect3 bio sam lajao2 bio si lajao2 bio je lajao2 bili smo lajali2 bili ste lajali2 bili su lajali2
Imperfect lajah lajaše lajaše lajasmo lajaste lajahu
Conditional I lajao bih2 lajao bi2 lajao bi2 lajali bismo2 lajali biste2 lajali bi2
Conditional II bio bih lajao2 bio bi lajao2 bio bi lajao2 bili bismo lajali2 bili biste lajali2 bili bi lajali2
Imperative — laj — lajmo lajte —
Active past participle lajao m / lajala f / lajalo n lajali m / lajale f / lajala 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.

Slovene

Verb

lajati

  1. bark (to make a loud noise (dogs))


This Slovene entry was created from the translations listed at bark. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see lajati in the Slovene Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) December 2007

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