željeti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *želěti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒěʎeti/
  • Hyphenation: že‧lje‧ti

Verb

žèljeti impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐљети)

  1. (transitive) to wish, desire (+ accusative or genitive)
    željeti sretan put - to wish "Bon Voyage"

Conjugation

Conjugation of željeti
Infinitive: željeti Present verbal adverb: žèlēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: žèljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present želim želiš želi želimo želite žele
Future Future I željet ću1
željeću 		željet ćeš1
željećeš 		željet će1
željeće 		željet ćemo1
željećemo 		željet ćete1
željećete 		željet će1
željeće
Future II bȕdēm želio2 bȕdēš želio2 bȕdē želio2 bȕdēmo željeli2 bȕdēte željeli2 bȕdū željeli2
Past Perfect želio sam2 želio si2 želio je2 željeli smo2 željeli ste2 željeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam želio2 bȉo si želio2 bȉo je želio2 bíli smo željeli2 bíli ste željeli2 bíli su željeli2
Imperfect željah željaše željaše željasmo željaste željahu
Conditional I želio bih2 želio bi2 želio bi2 željeli bismo2 željeli biste2 željeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih želio2 bȉo bi želio2 bȉo bi želio2 bíli bismo željeli2 bíli biste željeli2 bíli bi željeli2
Imperative — želi — želimo želite —
Active past participle želio m / željela f / željelo n željeli m / željele f / željela n
Passive past participle željen m / željena f / željeno n željeni m / željene f / željena 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

  • “željeti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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