žeći

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See also: zeci and żęci

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žeťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *degtéi, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti (“to burn”). First attested in the 14th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒětɕi/ (žèći)
  • IPA(key): /ʒêtɕi/ (žȅći)
  • Hyphenation: že‧ći

Verb

žèći impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐћи) or žȅći impf (Cyrillic spelling же̏ћи)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to burn

Conjugation

Conjugation of žeći
Infinitive: žeći Present verbal adverb: žȅžūći Past verbal adverb: žègāvši Verbal noun: žèžēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present žèžēm žežeš žeže žežemo žežete žègū
Future Future I žeći ću žeći ćeš žeći će žeći ćemo žeći ćete žeći će
Future II bȕdēm žȅgao2 bȕdēš žȅgao2 bȕdē žȅgao2 bȕdēmo žegli2 bȕdēte žegli2 bȕdū žegli2
Past Perfect žȅgao sam2 žȅgao si2 žȅgao je2 žegli smo2 žegli ste2 žegli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam žȅgao2 bȉo si žȅgao2 bȉo je žȅgao2 bíli smo žegli2 bíli ste žegli2 bíli su žegli2
Aorist žègoh žȅže žȅže žegosmo žegoste žegoše
Imperfect žèzijāh žezijaše žezijaše žezijasmo žezijaste žezijahu
Conditional I žȅgao bih2 žȅgao bi2 žȅgao bi2 žegli bismo2 žegli biste2 žegli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih žȅgao2 bȉo bi žȅgao2 bȉo bi žȅgao2 bíli bismo žegli2 bíli biste žegli2 bíli bi žegli2
Imperative — žèzi — žezimo žezite —
Active past participle žȅgao m / žègla f / žeglo n žegli m / žegle f / žegla n
Passive past participle žèžen m / žežèna f / žeženo n žeženi m / žežene f / žežena 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.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žèći”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 627
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