besnjeti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

bjèsnjeti (Ijekavian)

Etymology edit

From bȇs.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /běsɲeti/
Hyphenation: bes‧nje‧ti

Verb edit

bèsnjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling бѐсњети)

(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 besnjeti

Infinitive: besnjeti		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	besnjet ću¹ besnjeću	besnjet ćeš¹ besnjećeš	besnjet će¹ besnjeće	besnjet ćemo¹ besnjećemo	besnjet ćete¹ besnjećete	besnjet će¹ besnjeće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm besnio²	bȕdēš besnio²	bȕdē besnio²	bȕdēmo besnjeli / benjeli²	bȕdēte besnjeli / benjeli²	bȕdū besnjeli / benjeli²
Past	Perfect	besnio sam²	besnio si²	besnio je²	besnjeli / benjeli smo²	besnjeli / benjeli ste²	besnjeli / benjeli su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam besnio²	bȉo si besnio²	bȉo je besnio²	bíli smo besnjeli / benjeli²	bíli ste besnjeli / benjeli²	bíli su besnjeli / benjeli²
	Imperfect	bešnjah	bešnjaše	bešnjaše	bešnjasmo	bešnjaste	bešnjahu
Conditional I		besnio bih²	besnio bi²	besnio bi²	besnjeli / benjeli bismo²	besnjeli / benjeli biste²	besnjeli / benjeli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih besnio²	bȉo bi besnio²	bȉo bi besnio²	bíli bismo besnjeli / benjeli²	bíli biste besnjeli / benjeli²	bíli bi besnjeli / benjeli²
Imperative		—	besni	—	besnimo	besnite	—
Active past participle		besnio m / besnjela / bešnjela f / besnjelo / bešnjelo n			besnjeli / benjeli m / besnjele / bešnjele f / besnjela / bešnjela 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

“besnjeti” in Hrvatski jezični portal