žudjeti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlděti (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ- (“to wish for”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒǔːdjeti/
  • Hyphenation: žu‧dje‧ti

Verb

žúdjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling жу́дјети)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to long, desire, yearn, crave for

Usage notes

The verb is usually used with the preposition za (“for”), followed by an object in instrumental case. When the object is an action, it is in represented as an infinitive (Western Serbo-Croatian) or a da + present tense formation (used mostly in Eastern Serbo-Croatian). The rarest form of usage is with the direct object in accusative case.

Conjugation

Conjugation of žudjeti
Infinitive: žudjeti Present verbal adverb: žúdēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: žúđēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present žudim žudiš žudi žudimo žudite žude
Future Future I žudjet ću1
žudjeću 		žudjet ćeš1
žudjećeš 		žudjet će1
žudjeće 		žudjet ćemo1
žudjećemo 		žudjet ćete1
žudjećete 		žudjet će1
žudjeće
Future II bȕdēm žudio2 bȕdēš žudio2 bȕdē žudio2 bȕdēmo žudjeli2 bȕdēte žudjeli2 bȕdū žudjeli2
Past Perfect žudio sam2 žudio si2 žudio je2 žudjeli smo2 žudjeli ste2 žudjeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam žudio2 bȉo si žudio2 bȉo je žudio2 bíli smo žudjeli2 bíli ste žudjeli2 bíli su žudjeli2
Imperfect žuđah žuđaše žuđaše žuđasmo žuđaste žuđahu
Conditional I žudio bih2 žudio bi2 žudio bi2 žudjeli bismo2 žudjeli biste2 žudjeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih žudio2 bȉo bi žudio2 bȉo bi žudio2 bíli bismo žudjeli2 bíli biste žudjeli2 bíli bi žudjeli2
Imperative — žudi — žudimo žudite —
Active past participle žudio m / žudjela f / žudjelo n žudjeli m / žudjele f / žudjela n
Passive past participle žuđen m / žuđena f / žuđeno n žuđeni m / žuđene f / žuđena 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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