ćutati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕǔːtati/
• Hyphenation: ću‧ta‧ti

Verb

ćútati impf (Cyrillic spelling ћу́тати)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) to be silent, to shut up

Conjugation

Conjugation of ćutati

Infinitive: ćutati		Present verbal adverb: ćútēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ćútānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ćutim	ćutiš	ćuti	ćutimo	ćutite	ćute
Future	Future I	ćutat ću1 ćutaću	ćutat ćeš1 ćutaćeš	ćutat će1 ćutaće	ćutat ćemo1 ćutaćemo	ćutat ćete1 ćutaćete	ćutat će1 ćutaće
	Future II	bȕdēm ćutao2	bȕdēš ćutao2	bȕdē ćutao2	bȕdēmo ćutali2	bȕdēte ćutali2	bȕdū ćutali2
Past	Perfect	ćutao sam2	ćutao si2	ćutao je2	ćutali smo2	ćutali ste2	ćutali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ćutao2	bȉo si ćutao2	bȉo je ćutao2	bíli smo ćutali2	bíli ste ćutali2	bíli su ćutali2
	Imperfect	ćućah	ćućaše	ćućaše	ćućasmo	ćućaste	ćućahu
Conditional I		ćutao bih2	ćutao bi2	ćutao bi2	ćutali bismo2	ćutali biste2	ćutali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ćutao2	bȉo bi ćutao2	bȉo bi ćutao2	bíli bismo ćutali2	bíli biste ćutali2	bíli bi ćutali2
Imperative		—	ćuti	—	ćutimo	ćutite	—
Active past participle		ćutao m / ćutala f / ćutalo n			ćutali m / ćutale f / ćutala 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.

Synonyms

• ćútjeti, šútjeti (Croatian)

References

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