bježati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běžàti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bjěʒati/
  • Hyphenation: bje‧ža‧ti

Verb

bjèžati impf (Cyrillic spelling бјѐжати, perfective pòbjeći)

  1. (intransitive) to flee, run away

Conjugation

Conjugation of bježati
Infinitive: bježati Present verbal adverb: bjèžēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: bjèžānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present bježim bježiš bježi bježimo bježite bježe
Future Future I bježat ću1
bježaću 		bježat ćeš1
bježaćeš 		bježat će1
bježaće 		bježat ćemo1
bježaćemo 		bježat ćete1
bježaćete 		bježat će1
bježaće
Future II bȕdēm bježao2 bȕdēš bježao2 bȕdē bježao2 bȕdēmo bježali2 bȕdēte bježali2 bȕdū bježali2
Past Perfect bježao sam2 bježao si2 bježao je2 bježali smo2 bježali ste2 bježali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam bježao2 bȉo si bježao2 bȉo je bježao2 bíli smo bježali2 bíli ste bježali2 bíli su bježali2
Imperfect bježah bježaše bježaše bježasmo bježaste bježahu
Conditional I bježao bih2 bježao bi2 bježao bi2 bježali bismo2 bježali biste2 bježali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih bježao2 bȉo bi bježao2 bȉo bi bježao2 bíli bismo bježali2 bíli biste bježali2 bíli bi bježali2
Imperative — bježi — bježimo bježite —
Active past participle bježao m / bježala f / bježalo n bježali m / bježale f / bježala 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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