gledati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *glę̀dati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlêdati/
  • Hyphenation: gle‧da‧ti

Verb

glȅdati impf (Cyrillic spelling гле̏дати)

  1. (transitive) to watch, look, see
  2. (transitive) to try, endeavor (+ da)
  3. (transitive) to take care of, watch
  4. (reflexive) to look at oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of glȅdati
Infinitive: glȅdati Present verbal adverb: glȅdajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: glȅdānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present gledam gledaš gleda gledamo gledate gledaju
Future Future I glȅdat ću1
glȅdaću 		glȅdat ćeš1
glȅdaćeš 		glȅdat će1
glȅdaće 		glȅdat ćemo1
glȅdaćemo 		glȅdat ćete1
glȅdaćete 		glȅdat će1
glȅdaće
Future II bȕdēm glȅdao2 bȕdēš glȅdao2 bȕdē glȅdao2 bȕdēmo glȅdali2 bȕdēte glȅdali2 bȕdū glȅdali2
Past Perfect glȅdao sam2 glȅdao si2 glȅdao je2 glȅdali smo2 glȅdali ste2 glȅdali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam glȅdao2 bȉo si glȅdao2 bȉo je glȅdao2 bíli smo glȅdali2 bíli ste glȅdali2 bíli su glȅdali2
Aorist glȅdah glȅda glȅda glȅdasmo glȅdaste glȅdaše
Imperfect glȅdāh glȅdāše glȅdāše glȅdāsmo glȅdāste glȅdāhu
Conditional I glȅdao bih2 glȅdao bi2 glȅdao bi2 glȅdali bismo2 glȅdali biste2 glȅdali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih glȅdao2 bȉo bi glȅdao2 bȉo bi glȅdao2 bíli bismo glȅdali2 bíli biste glȅdali2 bíli bi glȅdali2
Imperative — glȅdāj — glȅdājmo glȅdājte —
Active past participle glȅdao m / glȅdala f / glȅdalo n glȅdali m / glȅdale f / glȅdala n
Passive past participle glȅdān m / glȅdāna f / glȅdāno n glȅdāni m / glȅdāne f / glȅdāna 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

From Proto-Slavic *ględati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlèːdati/
  • Hyphenation: glé‧da‧ti

Verb

glẹ́dati impf

  1. to watch, to observe; to view

Inflection

-ati -am (AP a)
infinitive glẹ́dati
1st singular glẹ̑dam
infinitive glẹ́dati glẹ́dat
supine glẹ́dat
verbal noun glẹ́danje
participle converb
present gledajọ̄č gledȃje
past glẹ̑dan —
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular glẹ́dał glẹ̄dala glẹ́dalo
dual glẹ́dala glẹ́dali glẹ́dali
plural glẹ́dali glẹ́dale glẹ́dala
present imperative
1st singular glẹ̑dam —
2nd singular glẹ̑daš glȅj, glēj
3rd singular glẹ̑da —
1st dual glẹ̑dava glējva
2nd dual glẹ̑data glējta
3rd dual glẹ̑data —
1st plural glẹ̑damo glējmo
2nd plural glẹ̑date glējte
3rd plural glẹ̑dajo —

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “gledati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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