bleštati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

blijéštati (Ijekavian)

Etymology edit

From blȇsak.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /blěːʃtati/
Hyphenation: ble‧šta‧ti

Verb edit

bléštati impf (Cyrillic spelling бле́штати)

(intransitive, reflexive) to blaze, flash, glare, flare
(intransitive, reflexive) to glimmer, glisten

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of bleštati

Infinitive: bleštati		Present verbal adverb: bléštēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bléštānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bleštim	bleštiš	blešti	bleštimo	bleštite	blešte
Future	Future I	bleštit ću¹ bleštiću	bleštit ćeš¹ bleštićeš	bleštit će¹ bleštiće	bleštit ćemo¹ bleštićemo	bleštit ćete¹ bleštićete	bleštit će¹ bleštiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm bleštao²	bȕdēš bleštao²	bȕdē bleštao²	bȕdēmo bleštali²	bȕdēte bleštali²	bȕdū bleštali²
Past	Perfect	bleštao sam²	bleštao si²	bleštao je²	bleštali smo²	bleštali ste²	bleštali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam bleštao²	bȉo si bleštao²	bȉo je bleštao²	bíli smo bleštali²	bíli ste bleštali²	bíli su bleštali²
	Imperfect	bleštah	bleštaše	bleštaše	bleštasmo	bleštaste	bleštahu
Conditional I		bleštao bih²	bleštao bi²	bleštao bi²	bleštali bismo²	bleštali biste²	bleštali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih bleštao²	bȉo bi bleštao²	bȉo bi bleštao²	bíli bismo bleštali²	bíli biste bleštali²	bíli bi bleštali²
Imperative		—	blešti	—	bleštimo	bleštite	—
Active past participle		bleštao m / bleštala f / bleštalo n			bleštali m / bleštale f / bleštala 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

“bleštati” in Hrvatski jezični portal