gostiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gostiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡǒstiti/
  • Hyphenation: gos‧ti‧ti

Verb

gòstiti impf (Cyrillic spelling го̀стити)

  1. (transitive) to treat, entertain, regale (as a guest)
  2. (reflexive) to feast, be a guest, banquet

Conjugation

Conjugation of gostiti
Infinitive: gostiti Present verbal adverb: gòstēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: gòšćēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present gostim gostiš gosti gostimo gostite goste
Future Future I gostit ću1
gostiću 		gostit ćeš1
gostićeš 		gostit će1
gostiće 		gostit ćemo1
gostićemo 		gostit ćete1
gostićete 		gostit će1
gostiće
Future II bȕdēm gostio2 bȕdēš gostio2 bȕdē gostio2 bȕdēmo gostili2 bȕdēte gostili2 bȕdū gostili2
Past Perfect gostio sam2 gostio si2 gostio je2 gostili smo2 gostili ste2 gostili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam gostio2 bȉo si gostio2 bȉo je gostio2 bíli smo gostili2 bíli ste gostili2 bíli su gostili2
Imperfect gošćah gošćaše gošćaše gošćasmo gošćaste gošćahu
Conditional I gostio bih2 gostio bi2 gostio bi2 gostili bismo2 gostili biste2 gostili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih gostio2 bȉo bi gostio2 bȉo bi gostio2 bíli bismo gostili2 bíli biste gostili2 bíli bi gostili2
Imperative — gosti — gostimo gostite —
Active past participle gostio m / gostila f / gostilo n gostili m / gostile f / gostila n
Passive past participle gošćen m / gošćena f / gošćeno n gošćeni m / gošćene f / gošćena 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

Further reading

  • “gostiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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