sjesti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• sȅsti (Ekavian)
• sisti (Ikavian)
• śȅsti (Montenegro)

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

• nàsjesti
• òdsjesti
• òpsjesti
• pòdsjesti
• pòsjesti
• prèsjesti
• prìsjesti
• ùsjesti
• zàsjesti

Related terms

• sjȅdati impf

Further reading

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