sjesti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěsti, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sjêsti/
  • Hyphenation: sje‧sti

Verb

sjȅsti pf (Cyrillic spelling сје̏сти)

  1. (intransitive) to sit down
  2. (intransitive) to sit well with sth

Conjugation

Conjugation of sjesti
Infinitive: sjesti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: sjȇvši Verbal noun: —
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present sjednem sjedneš sjedne sjednemo sjednete sjednu
Future Future I sjest ću1
sješću 		sjest ćeš1
sješćeš 		sjest će1
sješće 		sjest ćemo1
sješćemo 		sjest ćete1
sješćete 		sjest će1
sješće
Future II bȕdēm sjeo2 bȕdēš sjeo2 bȕdē sjeo2 bȕdēmo sjeli2 bȕdēte sjeli2 bȕdū sjeli2
Past Perfect sjeo sam2 sjeo si2 sjeo je2 sjeli smo2 sjeli ste2 sjeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam sjeo2 bȉo si sjeo2 bȉo je sjeo2 bíli smo sjeli2 bíli ste sjeli2 bíli su sjeli2
Aorist sjedoh sjede sjede sjedosmo sjedoste sjedoše
Conditional I sjeo bih2 sjeo bi2 sjeo bi2 sjeli bismo2 sjeli biste2 sjeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih sjeo2 bȉo bi sjeo2 bȉo bi sjeo2 bíli bismo sjeli2 bíli biste sjeli2 bíli bi sjeli2
Imperative — sjedni — sjednimo sjednite —
Active past participle sjeo m / sjela f / sjelo n sjeli m / sjele f / sjela 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

  • “sjesti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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