riješiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rěšiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rijěːʃiti/
  • Hyphenation: ri‧je‧ši‧ti

Verb

rijéšiti pf (Cyrillic spelling рије́шити)

  1. (transitive) to solve (a problem, riddle, equation, etc.)
  2. (reflexive) to get rid of (+ genitive)
  3. (intransitive, colloquial, Bosnia, Serbia) to resolve, decide (to do something)
    • 1991, “Ringišpil”, in Đorđe Balašević (music), Marim ja...‎:
      Rešilo nebo da potopi svet.
      The sky decided to drown the world.

Conjugation

Conjugation of riješiti
Infinitive: riješiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: rijéšīvši Verbal noun: rješénje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present riješim riješiš riješi riješimo riješite riješe
Future Future I riješit ću1
riješiću 		riješit ćeš1
riješićeš 		riješit će1
riješiće 		riješit ćemo1
riješićemo 		riješit ćete1
riješićete 		riješit će1
riješiće
Future II bȕdēm riješio2 bȕdēš riješio2 bȕdē riješio2 bȕdēmo riješili2 bȕdēte riješili2 bȕdū riješili2
Past Perfect riješio sam2 riješio si2 riješio je2 riješili smo2 riješili ste2 riješili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam riješio2 bȉo si riješio2 bȉo je riješio2 bíli smo riješili2 bíli ste riješili2 bíli su riješili2
Aorist riješih riješi riješi riješismo riješiste riješiše
Conditional I riješio bih2 riješio bi2 riješio bi2 riješili bismo2 riješili biste2 riješili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih riješio2 bȉo bi riješio2 bȉo bi riješio2 bíli bismo riješili2 bíli biste riješili2 bíli bi riješili2
Imperative — riješi — riješimo riješite —
Active past participle riješio m / riješila f / riješilo n riješili m / riješile f / riješila n
Passive past participle riješen m / riješena f / riješeno n riješeni m / riješene f / riješena 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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