seliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sedliti. Morphologically sèlo +‎ -iti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěliti/
• Hyphenation: se‧li‧ti

Verb

sèliti impf (Cyrillic spelling сѐлити)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) to migrate
2. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to move, relocate (change one's residence)

Conjugation

Conjugation of seliti

Infinitive: seliti		Present verbal adverb: sȅlēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sȅljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		selim	seliš	seli	selimo	selite	sele
Future	Future I	selit ću1 seliću	selit ćeš1 selićeš	selit će1 seliće	selit ćemo1 selićemo	selit ćete1 selićete	selit će1 seliće
	Future II	bȕdēm selio2	bȕdēš selio2	bȕdē selio2	bȕdēmo selili2	bȕdēte selili2	bȕdū selili2
Past	Perfect	selio sam2	selio si2	selio je2	selili smo2	selili ste2	selili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam selio2	bȉo si selio2	bȉo je selio2	bíli smo selili2	bíli ste selili2	bíli su selili2
	Imperfect	seljah	seljaše	seljaše	seljasmo	seljaste	seljahu
Conditional I		selio bih2	selio bi2	selio bi2	selili bismo2	selili biste2	selili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih selio2	bȉo bi selio2	bȉo bi selio2	bíli bismo selili2	bíli biste selili2	bíli bi selili2
Imperative		—	seli	—	selimo	selite	—
Active past participle		selio m / selila f / selilo n			selili m / selile f / selila n
Passive past participle		seljen m / seljena f / seljeno n			seljeni m / seljene f / seljena 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

• dosèliti
• isèliti
• presèliti
• rasèliti
• usèliti

Related terms

• seòba
• sèlidba

Further reading

• Drago Grdenić, editor (1953–1955), “seliti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 14, Zagreb: JAZU, page 827