beliti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bijéliti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běliti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běːliti/
• Hyphenation: be‧li‧ti

Verb

béliti impf (Cyrillic spelling бе́лити)

1. (transitive) to whiten, bleach

Conjugation

Conjugation of beliti

Infinitive: beliti		Present verbal adverb: bélēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: béljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		belim	beliš	beli	belimo	belite	bele
Future	Future I	belit ću1 beliću	belit ćeš1 belićeš	belit će1 beliće	belit ćemo1 belićemo	belit ćete1 belićete	belit će1 beliće
	Future II	bȕdēm belio2	bȕdēš belio2	bȕdē belio2	bȕdēmo belili2	bȕdēte belili2	bȕdū belili2
Past	Perfect	belio sam2	belio si2	belio je2	belili smo2	belili ste2	belili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam belio2	bȉo si belio2	bȉo je belio2	bíli smo belili2	bíli ste belili2	bíli su belili2
	Imperfect	beljah	beljaše	beljaše	beljasmo	beljaste	beljahu
Conditional I		belio bih2	belio bi2	belio bi2	belili bismo2	belili biste2	belili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih belio2	bȉo bi belio2	bȉo bi belio2	bíli bismo belili2	bíli biste belili2	bíli bi belili2
Imperative		—	beli	—	belimo	belite	—
Active past participle		belio m / belila f / belilo n			belili m / belile f / belila n
Passive past participle		beljen m / beljena f / beljeno n			beljeni m / beljene f / beljena 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

• izbéliti
• obéliti
• pobéliti
• zabéliti

Related terms

• béleti

References

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