češati

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See also: Cesati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *česati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *késtei.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃěʃati/
  • Hyphenation: če‧ša‧ti

Verb

čèšati impf (Cyrillic spelling чѐшати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to scratch
  2. (transitive) to curry, dress (horse)
  3. (transitive) to card, tease, comb (wool)

Conjugation

Conjugation of češati
Infinitive: češati Present verbal adverb: čȅšūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: čèšānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present češem češeš češe češemo češete češu
Future Future I češat ću1
češaću 		češat ćeš1
češaćeš 		češat će1
češaće 		češat ćemo1
češaćemo 		češat ćete1
češaćete 		češat će1
češaće
Future II bȕdēm češao2 bȕdēš češao2 bȕdē češao2 bȕdēmo češali2 bȕdēte češali2 bȕdū češali2
Past Perfect češao sam2 češao si2 češao je2 češali smo2 češali ste2 češali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam češao2 bȉo si češao2 bȉo je češao2 bíli smo češali2 bíli ste češali2 bíli su češali2
Imperfect češah češaše češaše češasmo češaste češahu
Conditional I češao bih2 češao bi2 češao bi2 češali bismo2 češali biste2 češali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih češao2 bȉo bi češao2 bȉo bi češao2 bíli bismo češali2 bíli biste češali2 bíli bi češali2
Imperative — češaj — češajmo češajte —
Active past participle češao m / češala f / češalo n češali m / češale f / češala n
Passive past participle češan m / češana f / češano n češani m / češane f / češana 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.

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