shënoi

Shënoi is the past tense form of the Albanian verb shënoj, meaning to mark, to inscribe, or to record, and, in social contexts, to celebrate or commemorate. In standard usage, shënoi indicates that a marking or a celebration occurred in the past. The sense depends on the object: it can denote literal marking or inscription, data or event recording, or festive commemoration.

Shënoi is commonly used with direct objects such as a festë (a party), një vit (an anniversary), or një ngjarje (an event) to signal that the action took place previously. Typical collocations include shënoi një festë (he celebrated a party), shënoi datën e pavarësisë (he marked the date of independence), or shënoi vitin e ngjarjes (the year of the event is commemorated). The form shënoi is the third-person singular past tense; the stem is shëno-, and the past participle is shënuar.

Examples: Ai shënoi festën e ditëlindjes me një ceremoni të veçantë. Qeveria shënoi vitin e pavarësisë me një ceremoni kombëtare dhe aktivitete publike.

Notes: shënoi is used across formal and literary prose as well as in everyday speech to denote that an event was observed, celebrated, or recorded in the past. The word uses the diacritic ë characteristic of Albanian orthography.