besneti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

bjèsnjeti (Ijekavian)

Etymology edit

From bȇs.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /běsneti/
Hyphenation: bes‧ne‧ti

Verb edit

bèsneti impf (Cyrillic spelling бѐснети)

(intransitive) to rage, be furious or infuriated
(intransitive) to rage, be rampant or rife, to run wild (of a war, crisis, epidemic etc.)

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of besneti

Infinitive: besneti		Present verbal adverb: bèsnēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bèšnjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		besnim	besniš	besni	besnimo	besnite	besne
Future	Future I	besnet ću¹ besneću	besnet ćeš¹ besnećeš	besnet će¹ besneće	besnet ćemo¹ besnećemo	besnet ćete¹ besnećete	besnet će¹ besneće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm besnio²	bȕdēš besnio²	bȕdē besnio²	bȕdēmo besneli / beneli²	bȕdēte besneli / beneli²	bȕdū besneli / beneli²
Past	Perfect	besnio sam²	besnio si²	besnio je²	besneli / beneli smo²	besneli / beneli ste²	besneli / beneli su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam besnio²	bȉo si besnio²	bȉo je besnio²	bíli smo besneli / beneli²	bíli ste besneli / beneli²	bíli su besneli / beneli²
	Imperfect	bešnjah	bešnjaše	bešnjaše	bešnjasmo	bešnjaste	bešnjahu
Conditional I		besnio bih²	besnio bi²	besnio bi²	besneli / beneli bismo²	besneli / beneli biste²	besneli / beneli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih besnio²	bȉo bi besnio²	bȉo bi besnio²	bíli bismo besneli / beneli²	bíli biste besneli / beneli²	bíli bi besneli / beneli²
Imperative		—	besni	—	besnimo	besnite	—
Active past participle		besnio m / besnela / bešnela f / besnelo / bešnelo n			besneli / beneli m / besnele / bešnele f / besnela / bešnela 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 edit

“besneti” in Hrvatski jezični portal