gonetati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Possibly related to gòniti in its obsolete meaning "to hit, beat".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡoněːtati/
  • Hyphenation: go‧ne‧ta‧ti

Verb

gonétati impf (Cyrillic spelling гоне́тати)

  1. (transitive) to solve (puzzle, problem), seek an answer
  2. (transitive) to predict, augur, divine

Conjugation

Conjugation of gonetati
infinitive gonetati
present verbal adverb gonètajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun gonètānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present gonetam gonetaš goneta gonetamo gonetate gonetaju
future future I gonetat ću1
gonetaću
gonetat ćeš1
gonetaćeš
gonetat će1
gonetaće
gonetat ćemo1
gonetaćemo
gonetat ćete1
gonetaćete
gonetat ćē1
gonetaće
future II bȕdēm gonetao2 bȕdēš gonetao2 bȕdē gonetao2 bȕdēmo gonetali2 bȕdēte gonetali2 bȕdū gonetali2
past perfect gonetao sam2 gonetao si2 gonetao je2 gonetali smo2 gonetali ste2 gonetali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam gonetao2 bȉo si gonetao2 bȉo je gonetao2 bíli smo gonetali2 bíli ste gonetali2 bíli su gonetali2
imperfect gonetah gonetaše gonetaše gonetasmo gonetaste gonetahu
conditional conditional I gonetao bih2 gonetao bi2 gonetao bi2 gonetali bismo2 gonetali biste2 gonetali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih gonetao2 bȉo bi gonetao2 bȉo bi gonetao2 bíli bismo gonetali2 bíli biste gonetali2 bíli bi gonetali2
imperative gonetaj gonetajmo gonetajte
active past participle gonetao m / gonetala f / gonetalo n gonetali m / gonetale f / gonetala n
passive past participle gonetan m / gonetana f / gonetano n gonetani m / gonetane f / gonetana 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

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