blažiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bolžiti. From blȃg.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /blǎːʒiti/
Hyphenation: bla‧ži‧ti

Verb

blážiti impf (Cyrillic spelling бла́жити)

(transitive) to mitigate, lessen, alleviate (severity, intensity, taste etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of blažiti

Infinitive: blažiti		Present verbal adverb: blážēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: blážēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		blažim	blažiš	blaži	blažimo	blažite	blaže
Future	Future I	blažit ću¹ blažiću	blažit ćeš¹ blažićeš	blažit će¹ blažiće	blažit ćemo¹ blažićemo	blažit ćete¹ blažićete	blažit će¹ blažiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm blažio²	bȕdēš blažio²	bȕdē blažio²	bȕdēmo blažili²	bȕdēte blažili²	bȕdū blažili²
Past	Perfect	blažio sam²	blažio si²	blažio je²	blažili smo²	blažili ste²	blažili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam blažio²	bȉo si blažio²	bȉo je blažio²	bíli smo blažili²	bíli ste blažili²	bíli su blažili²
	Imperfect	blažah	blažaše	blažaše	blažasmo	blažaste	blažahu
Conditional I		blažio bih²	blažio bi²	blažio bi²	blažili bismo²	blažili biste²	blažili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih blažio²	bȉo bi blažio²	bȉo bi blažio²	bíli bismo blažili²	bíli biste blažili²	bíli bi blažili²
Imperative		—	blaži	—	blažimo	blažite	—
Active past participle		blažio m / blažila f / blažilo n			blažili m / blažile f / blažila n
Passive past participle		blažen m / blažena f / blaženo n			blaženi m / blažene f / blažena 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

References

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