brijati
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *briti
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brîjati/
- Hyphenation: bri‧ja‧ti
Verb
brȉjati impf (Cyrillic spelling бри̏јати)
- (transitive, reflexive) to shave
- (slang) to think
- Brijem da to nije točno. ― I don't think that's true
- Briješ? Brijem. ― You think so? Yeah I do.
- (slang) to make out with, to hook up with
- Poslije nastave su zabrijali. ― They made out after class
- (slang) to go on about something, be on about
- Ma dosadan je, stalno brije o tome da ga zapostavljam. ― He's boring, he keeps going on about how I'm neglecting him.
Conjugation
Conjugation of brijati
| Infinitive: brijati | Present verbal adverb: brȉjūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: brȉjānje | ||||
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | brijem | briješ | brije | brijemo | brijete | briju | |
| Future | Future I | brijat ću1 brijaću | brijat ćeš1 brijaćeš | brijat će1 brijaće | brijat ćemo1 brijaćemo | brijat ćete1 brijaćete | brijat će1 brijaće |
| Future II | budem brijao2 | budeš brijao2 | bude brijao2 | budemo brijali2 | budete brijali2 | budu brijali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | brijao sam2 | brijao si2 | brijao je2 | brijali smo2 | brijali ste2 | brijali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bio sam brijao2 | bio si brijao2 | bio je brijao2 | bili smo brijali2 | bili ste brijali2 | bili su brijali2 | |
| Imperfect | brijah | brijaše | brijaše | brijasmo | brijaste | brijahu | |
| Conditional I | brijao bih2 | brijao bi2 | brijao bi2 | brijali bismo2 | brijali biste2 | brijali bi2 | |
| Conditional II | bio bih brijao2 | bio bi brijao2 | bio bi brijao2 | bili bismo brijali2 | bili biste brijali2 | bili bi brijali2 | |
| Imperative | — | brij | — | brijmo | brijte | — | |
| Active past participle | brijao m / brijala f / brijalo n | brijali m / brijale f / brijala n | |||||
| Passive past participle | brijan m / brijana f / brijano n | brijani m / brijane f / brijana 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
- ìzbrijati
- nàbrijati
- òbrijati
- brijač
- Seviljski brijač