žudeti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlděti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒǔːdeti/
  • Hyphenation: žu‧de‧ti

Verb

žúdeti impf (Cyrillic spelling жу́дети)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to long, desire, yearn, crave for

Usage notes

The verb is usually used with the preposition za (“for”), followed by an object in instrumental case. When the object is an action, it is in represented as an infinitive (Western Serbo-Croatian) or a da + present tense formation (Eastern Serbo-Croatian). The rarest form of usage is with the direct object in accusative case.

Conjugation

Conjugation of žudeti
Infinitive: žudeti Present verbal adverb: žúdēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: žúđēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present žudim žudiš žudi žudimo žudite žude
Future Future I žudet ću1
žudeću 		žudet ćeš1
žudećeš 		žudet će1
žudeće 		žudet ćemo1
žudećemo 		žudet ćete1
žudećete 		žudet će1
žudeće
Future II bȕdēm žudeo2 bȕdēš žudeo2 bȕdē žudeo2 bȕdēmo žudeli2 bȕdēte žudeli2 bȕdū žudeli2
Past Perfect žudeo sam2 žudeo si2 žudeo je2 žudeli smo2 žudeli ste2 žudeli su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam žudeo2 bȉo si žudeo2 bȉo je žudeo2 bíli smo žudeli2 bíli ste žudeli2 bíli su žudeli2
Imperfect žuđah žuđaše žuđaše žuđasmo žuđaste žuđahu
Conditional I žudeo bih2 žudeo bi2 žudeo bi2 žudeli bismo2 žudeli biste2 žudeli bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih žudeo2 bȉo bi žudeo2 bȉo bi žudeo2 bíli bismo žudeli2 bíli biste žudeli2 bíli bi žudeli2
Imperative — žudi — žudimo žudite —
Active past participle žudeo m / žudela f / žudelo n žudeli m / žudele f / žudela n
Passive past participle žuđen m / žuđena f / žuđeno n žuđeni m / žuđene f / žuđena 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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