znati
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *znati, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /znâti/
- Hyphenation: zna‧ti
Verb
znȁti impf (Cyrillic spelling зна̏ти)
- (transitive, intransitive) to know (some information)
- (transitive, intransitive) to know, to be familiar with (someone)
- (transitive) to be privy to (a secret)
- (transitive) to be versed in, to be familiar with (a skill)
Conjugation
Conjugation of znati
| Infinitive: znati | Present verbal adverb: znȁjūći / znádūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: — | ||||
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | znam / znadem | znaš / znadeš | zna / znade | znamo / znademo | znate / znedete | znaju / znadu | |
| Future | Future I | znat ću1 znaću | znat ćeš1 znaćeš | znat će1 znaće | znat ćemo1 znaćemo | znat ćete1 znaćete | znat će1 znaće |
| Future II | budem znao2 | budeš znao2 | bude znao2 | budemo znali2 | budete znali2 | budu znali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | znao sam2 | znao si2 | znao je2 | znali smo2 | znali ste2 | znali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bio sam znao2 | bio si znao2 | bio je znao2 | bili smo znali2 | bili ste znali2 | bili su znali2 | |
| Imperfect | znah | znaše | znaše | znasmo | znaste | znahu | |
| Conditional I | znao bih2 | znao bi2 | znao bi2 | znali bismo2 | znali biste2 | znali bi2 | |
| Conditional II | bio bih znao2 | bio bi znao2 | bio bi znao2 | bili bismo znali2 | bili biste znali2 | bili bi znali2 | |
| Imperative | — | znaj | — | znajmo | znajte | — | |
| Active past participle | znao m / znala f / znalo n | znali m / znale f / znala n | |||||
| Passive past participle | znan m / znana f / znano n | znani m / znane f / znana 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. | |||||||
Derived terms
- dòznati (“to find out”)
- pòznati (“to know, have knowledge of; to recognize, make out”)
- prepòznati (“to recognize”)
- prìznati (“to acknowledge, recognize; to own, confess; to admit; to concede the claim; to appreciate; to plead guilty”)
- raspòznati (“to tell apart, recognize, discern, make out”)
- razàznati (“to distinguish, make out, differentiate”)
- sàznati (“to find out, come to know”)
- spòznati (“to comprehend, conceive; to become aware or cognizant of; to learn”)
- upòznati (“to get acquainted with; to meet, get introduced to; to learn; to experience”)
- znánac m (“acquaintance”)
- znánje n (“knowledge”)
- znȁnōst f (“science”)