zanimati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian занима́ть (zanimátʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zanǐːmati/
• Hyphenation: za‧ni‧ma‧ti

Verb

zanímati impf (Cyrillic spelling зани́мати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to interest (+ za (“in”))

   Sve me zanima

   Everything interests me.

2. (transitive, reflexive) to be interested in, take an interest in (+ u (“in”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of zanimati

Infinitive: zanimati		Present verbal adverb: zanímajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zanímānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zanimam	zanimaš	zanima	zanimamo	zanimate	zanimaju
Future	Future I	zanimat ću1 zanimaću	zanimat ćeš1 zanimaćeš	zanimat će1 zanimaće	zanimat ćemo1 zanimaćemo	zanimat ćete1 zanimaćete	zanimat će1 zanimaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zanimao2	bȕdēš zanimao2	bȕdē zanimao2	bȕdēmo zanimali2	bȕdēte zanimali2	bȕdū zanimali2
Past	Perfect	zanimao sam2	zanimao si2	zanimao je2	zanimali smo2	zanimali ste2	zanimali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zanimao2	bȉo si zanimao2	bȉo je zanimao2	bíli smo zanimali2	bíli ste zanimali2	bíli su zanimali2
	Imperfect	zanimah	zanimaše	zanimaše	zanimasmo	zanimaste	zanimahu
Conditional I		zanimao bih2	zanimao bi2	zanimao bi2	zanimali bismo2	zanimali biste2	zanimali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zanimao2	bȉo bi zanimao2	bȉo bi zanimao2	bíli bismo zanimali2	bíli biste zanimali2	bíli bi zanimali2
Imperative		—	zanimaj	—	zanimajmo	zanimajte	—
Active past participle		zanimao m / zanimala f / zanimalo n			zanimali m / zanimale f / zanimala 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.