brijati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *briti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brîjati/
• Hyphenation: bri‧ja‧ti

Verb

brȉjati impf (Cyrillic spelling бри̏јати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to shave
2. (slang, regional, Croatia) to think

   Brijem da to nije točno. ― I don't think that's true

   Briješ? Brijem. ― You think so? Yeah I do.

3. (slang) to make out with, to hook up with

   Poslije nastave su zabrijali. ― They made out after class

4. (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	bȕdēm brijao2	bȕdēš brijao2	bȕdē brijao2	bȕdēmo brijali2	bȕdēte brijali2	bȕdū brijali2
Past	Perfect	brijao sam2	brijao si2	brijao je2	brijali smo2	brijali ste2	brijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam brijao2	bȉo si brijao2	bȉo je brijao2	bíli smo brijali2	bíli ste brijali2	bíli su brijali2
	Imperfect	brijah	brijaše	brijaše	brijasmo	brijaste	brijahu
Conditional I		brijao bih2	brijao bi2	brijao bi2	brijali bismo2	brijali biste2	brijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih brijao2	bȉo bi brijao2	bȉo bi brijao2	bíli bismo brijali2	bíli biste brijali2	bíli 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. 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

• ìzbrijati
• nàbrijati
• òbrijati
• brijač
• Seviljski brijač

Further reading

• “brijati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024