bdeti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъděti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *budḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to (be) awake”), cognate with Czech bdít.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bdêti/
  • Hyphenation: bde‧ti

Verb

bdȅti impf (Cyrillic spelling бде̏ти)

  1. (intransitive) to watch over, keep vigil (+ nad (“over”) + instrumental)
    c(ij)elu noć je majka bd(j)ela nad d(j)etetom ― the mother was watching over the child the whole night

Conjugation

Conjugation of bdeti
Infinitive: bdeti Present verbal adverb: bdȇći/bdȉjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: bdénje/bdēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present bdem / bdim bdeš / bdiš bde / bdi bdemo / bdimo bdete / bdite bdiju / bde
Future Future I bdet ću1
bdeću 		bdet ćeš1
bdećeš 		bdet će1
bdeće 		bdet ćemo1
bdećemo 		bdet ćete1
bdećete 		bdet će1
bdeće
Future II bȕdēm bdeo2 bȕdēš bdeo2 bȕdē bdeo2 bȕdēmo bdeli2 bȕdēte bdeli2 bȕdū bdeli2
Past Perfect bdeo sam2 bdeo si2 bdeo je2 bdeli smo2 bdeli ste2 bdeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam bdeo2 bȉo si bdeo2 bȉo je bdeo2 bíli smo bdeli2 bíli ste bdeli2 bíli su bdeli2
Imperfect bdijah / bđah bdijaše / bđaše bdijaše / bđaše bdijasmo / bđasmo bdijaste / bđaste bdijahu / bđahu
Conditional I bdeo bih2 bdeo bi2 bdeo bi2 bdeli bismo2 bdeli biste2 bdeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih bdeo2 bȉo bi bdeo2 bȉo bi bdeo2 bíli bismo bdeli2 bíli biste bdeli2 bíli bi bdeli2
Imperative — bdij / bdi — bdijmo / bdimo bdijte / bdite —
Active past participle bdeo m / bdela f / bdelo n bdeli m / bdele f / bdela 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

References

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