bdjeti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bdjêti/
  • Hyphenation: bdje‧ti

Verb

bdjȅti impf (Cyrillic spelling бдје̏ти)

  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 bdjeti
Infinitive: bdjeti Present verbal adverb: bdȇći/bdȉjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: bdjénje/bdȉjēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present bdijem / bdim bdiješ / bdiš bdije / bdi bdijemo / bdimo bdijete / bdite bdiju / bde
Future Future I bdjet ću1
bdjeću 		bdjet ćeš1
bdjećeš 		bdjet će1
bdjeće 		bdjet ćemo1
bdjećemo 		bdjet ćete1
bdjećete 		bdjet će1
bdjeće
Future II bȕdēm bdio2 bȕdēš bdio2 bȕdē bdio2 bȕdēmo bdjeli2 bȕdēte bdjeli2 bȕdū bdjeli2
Past Perfect bdio sam2 bdio si2 bdio je2 bdjeli smo2 bdjeli ste2 bdjeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam bdio2 bȉo si bdio2 bȉo je bdio2 bíli smo bdjeli2 bíli ste bdjeli2 bíli su bdjeli2
Imperfect bdijah / bđah bdijaše / bđaše bdijaše / bđaše bdijasmo / bđasmo bdijaste / bđaste bdijahu / bđahu
Conditional I bdio bih2 bdio bi2 bdio bi2 bdjeli bismo2 bdjeli biste2 bdjeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih bdio2 bȉo bi bdio2 bȉo bi bdio2 bíli bismo bdjeli2 bíli biste bdjeli2 bíli bi bdjeli2
Imperative — bdij / bdi — bdijmo / bdimo bdijte / bdite —
Active past participle bdio m / bdjela f / bdjelo n bdjeli m / bdjele f / bdjela 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

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