žaliti

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See also: zaliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaliti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒâliti/
  • Hyphenation: ža‧li‧ti

Verb

žȁliti impf (Cyrillic spelling жа̏лити)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to mourn, grieve
  2. (transitive) to pity, feel sorry for
  3. (intransitive) to regret, be sorry
  4. (intransitive) to miss, long for
  5. (reflexive) to complain

Conjugation

Conjugation of žaliti
Infinitive: žaliti Present verbal adverb: žȁlēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: žȁljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present žalim žališ žali žalimo žalite žale
Future Future I žalit ću1
žaliću 		žalit ćeš1
žalićeš 		žalit će1
žaliće 		žalit ćemo1
žalićemo 		žalit ćete1
žalićete 		žalit će1
žaliće
Future II bȕdēm žalio2 bȕdēš žalio2 bȕdē žalio2 bȕdēmo žalili2 bȕdēte žalili2 bȕdū žalili2
Past Perfect žalio sam2 žalio si2 žalio je2 žalili smo2 žalili ste2 žalili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam žalio2 bȉo si žalio2 bȉo je žalio2 bíli smo žalili2 bíli ste žalili2 bíli su žalili2
Imperfect žaljah žaljaše žaljaše žaljasmo žaljaste žaljahu
Conditional I žalio bih2 žalio bi2 žalio bi2 žalili bismo2 žalili biste2 žalili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih žalio2 bȉo bi žalio2 bȉo bi žalio2 bíli bismo žalili2 bíli biste žalili2 bíli bi žalili2
Imperative — žali — žalimo žalite —
Active past participle žalio m / žalila f / žalilo n žalili m / žalile f / žalila 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

Further reading

  • “žaliti” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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