ciganiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Cȉganin.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

cigániti impf (Cyrillic spelling цига́нити)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of ciganiti

infinitive		ciganiti
present verbal adverb		cigánēći
past verbal adverb		ciganivši
verbal noun		ciganjenje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
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 ćē1 ciganićē
	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	bȉo sam ciganio2	bȉo si ciganio2	bȉo je ciganio2	bíli smo ciganili2	bíli ste ciganili2	bíli su ciganili2
	imperfect	ciganjah	ciganjaše	ciganjaše	ciganjasmo	ciganjaste	ciganjahu
conditional	conditional I	ciganio bih2	ciganio bi2	ciganio bi2	ciganili bismo2	ciganili biste2	ciganili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih ciganio2	bȉo bi ciganio2	bȉo bi ciganio2	bíli bismo ciganili2	bíli biste ciganili2	bíli 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 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.

References

• “ciganiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026