ciljati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From cȋlj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sǐːʎati/
• Hyphenation: ci‧lja‧ti

Verb

cíljati impf (Cyrillic spelling ци́љати)

1. (transitive) to aim at
2. (transitive, figuratively) to allude to

Conjugation

Conjugation of ciljati

Infinitive: ciljati		Present verbal adverb: cíljajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cíljānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ciljam	ciljaš	cilja	ciljamo	ciljate	ciljaju
Future	Future I	ciljat ću1 ciljaću	ciljat ćeš1 ciljaćeš	ciljat će1 ciljaće	ciljat ćemo1 ciljaćemo	ciljat ćete1 ciljaćete	ciljat će1 ciljaće
	Future II	bȕdēm ciljao2	bȕdēš ciljao2	bȕdē ciljao2	bȕdēmo ciljali2	bȕdēte ciljali2	bȕdū ciljali2
Past	Perfect	ciljao sam2	ciljao si2	ciljao je2	ciljali smo2	ciljali ste2	ciljali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ciljao2	bȉo si ciljao2	bȉo je ciljao2	bíli smo ciljali2	bíli ste ciljali2	bíli su ciljali2
	Imperfect	ciljah	ciljaše	ciljaše	ciljasmo	ciljaste	ciljahu
Conditional I		ciljao bih2	ciljao bi2	ciljao bi2	ciljali bismo2	ciljali biste2	ciljali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ciljao2	bȉo bi ciljao2	bȉo bi ciljao2	bíli bismo ciljali2	bíli biste ciljali2	bíli bi ciljali2
Imperative		—	ciljaj	—	ciljajmo	ciljajte	—
Active past participle		ciljao m / ciljala f / ciljalo n			ciljali m / ciljale f / ciljala n
Passive past participle		ciljan m / ciljana f / ciljano n			ciljani m / ciljane f / ciljana 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.

Derived terms

• nacíljati

References

• “ciljati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024