šaliti

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See also: saliti and sālīti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *šaliti. From šála.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃâliti/
  • Hyphenation: ša‧li‧ti

Verb

šȁliti impf (Cyrillic spelling ша̏лити)

  1. (reflexive) to joke; to joke around
    Samo se šalim. ― I am just joking.
  2. (reflexive) to hoax
  3. (reflexive) to jest

Conjugation

Conjugation of šaliti
Infinitive: šaliti Present verbal adverb: šȁlēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: šȁljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present šalīm šališ šali šalimo šalite šale
Future Future I šalit ću1
šaliću 		šalit ćeš1
šalićeš 		šalit će1
šaliće 		šalit ćemo1
šalićemo 		šalit ćete1
šalićete 		šalit će1
šaliće
Future II bȕdēm šalio2 bȕdēš šalio2 bȕdē šalio2 bȕdēmo šalili2 bȕdēte šalili2 bȕdū šalili2
Past Perfect šalio sam2 šalio si2 šalio je2 šalili smo2 šalili ste2 šalili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam šalio2 bȉo si šalio2 bȉo je šalio2 bíli smo šalili2 bíli ste šalili2 bíli su šalili2
Imperfect šaljah šaljaše šaljaše šaljasmo šaljaste šaljahu
Conditional I šalio bih2 šalio bi2 šalio bi2 šalili bismo2 šalili biste2 šalili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih šalio2 bȉo bi šalio2 bȉo bi šalio2 bíli bismo šalili2 bíli biste šalili2 bíli bi šalili2
Imperative — šali — šalimo šalite —
Active past participle šalio m / šalila f / šalilo n šalili m / šalile f / šalila 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

noun

Further reading

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