besediti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bèsjediti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From bèseda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běsediti/
• Hyphenation: be‧se‧di‧ti

Verb

bèsediti impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling бѐседити)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) to speak
2. (intransitive, obsolete) to deliver a talk or sermon

Conjugation

Conjugation of besediti

Infinitive: besediti		Present verbal adverb: bèsedēći		Past verbal adverb: bèsedīvši		Verbal noun: bèseđēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		besedim	besediš	besedi	besedimo	besedite	besede
Future	Future I	besedit ću1 besediću	besedit ćeš1 besedićeš	besedit će1 besediće	besedit ćemo1 besedićemo	besedit ćete1 besedićete	besedit će1 besediće
	Future II	bȕdēm besedio2	bȕdēš besedio2	bȕdē besedio2	bȕdēmo besedili2	bȕdēte besedili2	bȕdū besedili2
Past	Perfect	besedio sam2	besedio si2	besedio je2	besedili smo2	besedili ste2	besedili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam besedio2	bȉo si besedio2	bȉo je besedio2	bíli smo besedili2	bíli ste besedili2	bíli su besedili2
	Aorist	besedih	besedi	besedi	besedismo	besediste	besediše
	Imperfect	beseđah	beseđaše	beseđaše	beseđasmo	beseđaste	beseđahu
Conditional I		besedio bih2	besedio bi2	besedio bi2	besedili bismo2	besedili biste2	besedili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih besedio2	bȉo bi besedio2	bȉo bi besedio2	bíli bismo besedili2	bíli biste besedili2	bíli bi besedili2
Imperative		—	besedi	—	besedimo	besedite	—
Active past participle		besedio m / besedila f / besedilo n			besedili m / besedile f / besedila 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.

References

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