lajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *làjati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lâjati/
• Hyphenation: la‧ja‧ti

Verb

lȁjati impf (Cyrillic spelling ла̏јати)

1. (intransitive) to bark, yelp (of dogs)
2. (figurative) to yap, to babble

Conjugation

Infinitive: lajati		Present verbal adverb: lȁjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lȁjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		lajem	laješ	laje	lajemo	lajete	laju
Future	Future I	lajat ću1 lajaću	lajat ćeš1 lajaćeš	lajat će1 lajaće	lajat ćemo1 lajaćemo	lajat ćete1 lajaćete	lajat će1 lajaće
	Future II	bȕdēm lajao2	bȕdēš lajao2	bȕdē lajao2	bȕdēmo lajali2	bȕdēte lajali2	bȕdū lajali2
Past	Perfect	lajao sam2	lajao si2	lajao je2	lajali smo2	lajali ste2	lajali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam lajao2	bȉo si lajao2	bȉo je lajao2	bíli smo lajali2	bíli ste lajali2	bíli su lajali2
	Imperfect	lajah	lajaše	lajaše	lajasmo	lajaste	lajahu
Conditional I		lajao bih2	lajao bi2	lajao bi2	lajali bismo2	lajali biste2	lajali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih lajao2	bȉo bi lajao2	bȉo bi lajao2	bíli bismo lajali2	bíli biste lajali2	bíli bi lajali2
Imperative		—	laj	—	lajmo	lajte	—
Active past participle		lajao m / lajala f / lajalo n			lajali m / lajale f / lajala 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.

Conjugation of lajati

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lajati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /láːjati/

Verb

lȃjati impf

1. to bark

Inflection

-ati -am (circumflex)
infinitive	lȃjati
1st singular	lȃjam
infinitive	lȃjati			lȃjat
supine	lȃjat
verbal noun	lȃjanje
	participle			converb
present	lajajọ̄č			lajȃje
past	—			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	lȃjał		lȃjala		lȃjalo
dual	lȃjala		lȃjali		lȃjali
plural	lȃjali		lȃjale		lȃjala
	present			imperative
1st singular	lȃjam			—
2nd singular	lȃjaš			lȃjaj
3rd singular	lȃja			—
1st dual	lȃjava			lȃjajva
2nd dual	lȃjata			lȃjajta
3rd dual	lȃjata			—
1st plural	lȃjamo			lȃjajmo
2nd plural	lȃjate			lȃjajte
3rd plural	lȃjajo			—

Derived terms

• nalȃjati
• oblȃjati
• zalȃjati

Further reading

• “lajati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025