ciganiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Cȉganin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡siɡǎːniti/
Hyphenation: ci‧ga‧ni‧ti

Verb

cigániti impf (Cyrillic spelling цига́нити)

(intransitive, reflexive) to haggle, haggle down, drive a hard bargain

Conjugation

Conjugation of ciganiti

Infinitive: ciganiti		Present verbal adverb: cigánēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cigánēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ciganim	ciganiš	cigani	ciganimo	ciganite	cigane
Future	Future I	ciganit ću¹ ciganiću	ciganit ćeš¹ ciganićeš	ciganit će¹ ciganiće	ciganit ćemo¹ ciganićemo	ciganit ćete¹ ciganićete	ciganit će¹ ciganiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ciganio²	bȕdēš ciganio²	bȕdē ciganio²	bȕdēmo ciganili²	bȕdēte ciganili²	bȕdū ciganili²
Past	Perfect	ciganio sam²	ciganio si²	ciganio je²	ciganili smo²	ciganili ste²	ciganili su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam ciganio²	bio si ciganio²	bio je ciganio²	bili smo ciganili²	bili ste ciganili²	bili su ciganili²
	Imperfect	ciganjah	ciganjaše	ciganjaše	ciganjasmo	ciganjaste	ciganjahu
Conditional I		ciganio bih²	ciganio bi²	ciganio bi²	ciganili bismo²	ciganili biste²	ciganili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih ciganio²	bio bi ciganio²	bio bi ciganio²	bili bismo ciganili²	bili biste ciganili²	bili bi ciganili²
Imperative		—	cigani	—	ciganimo	ciganite	—
Active past participle		ciganio m / ciganila f / ciganilo n			ciganili m / ciganile f / ciganila n
Passive past participle		ciganjen m / ciganjena f / ciganjeno n			ciganjeni m / ciganjene f / ciganjena 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 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.

References

“ciganiti” in Hrvatski jezični portal