deliti

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Catalan

Verb

deliti

  1. inflection of delitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Participle

dēlitī

  1. inflection of dēlitus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děliti (“to divide”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *doyl-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl-, *dʰoyl-. Cognates include Old English dǣlan (English deal) and Lithuanian dailyti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /děːliti/
  • Hyphenation: de‧li‧ti

Verb

déliti impf (Cyrillic spelling де́лити)

  1. (transitive) to divide, separate
  2. (transitive) to share
  3. (transitive) to give, distribute, dispense
  4. (mathematics) to divide
  5. (reflexive) to divide, fork

Conjugation

Conjugation of deliti
Infinitive: deliti Present verbal adverb: délēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: déljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present delim deliš deli delimo delite dele
Future Future I delit ću1
deliću 		delit ćeš1
delićeš 		delit će1
deliće 		delit ćemo1
delićemo 		delit ćete1
delićete 		delit će1
deliće
Future II bȕdēm delio2 bȕdēš delio2 bȕdē delio2 bȕdēmo delili2 bȕdēte delili2 bȕdū delili2
Past Perfect delio sam2 delio si2 delio je2 delili smo2 delili ste2 delili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam delio2 bȉo si delio2 bȉo je delio2 bíli smo delili2 bíli ste delili2 bíli su delili2
Imperfect deljah deljaše deljaše deljasmo deljaste deljahu
Conditional I delio bih2 delio bi2 delio bi2 delili bismo2 delili biste2 delili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih delio2 bȉo bi delio2 bȉo bi delio2 bíli bismo delili2 bíli biste delili2 bíli bi delili2
Imperative — deli — delimo delite —
Active past participle delio m / delila f / delilo n delili m / delile f / delila n
Passive past participle deljen m / deljena f / deljeno n deljeni m / deljene f / deljena 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

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děliti (“to divide”).

Pronunciation

Verb

delíti impf

  1. to divide
    delíti na tri dele ― divide into three parts

Further reading

  • “deliti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
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