štititi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščititi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtîtiti/
• Hyphenation: šti‧ti‧ti

Verb

štȉtiti impf (Cyrillic spelling шти̏тити)

1. (transitive) to protect
2. (transitive) to shield
3. (transitive) to defend, guard

Conjugation

Conjugation of štititi

infinitive		štititi
present verbal adverb		štȉtēćī
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		štȉćēnje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		štitim	štitiš	štiti	štitimo	štitite	štite
future	future I	štitit ću1 štitiću	štitit ćeš1 štitićeš	štitit će1 štitiće	štitit ćemo1 štitićemo	štitit ćete1 štitićete	štitit ćē1 štitiće
	future II	bȕdēm štitio2	bȕdēš štitio2	bȕdē štitio2	bȕdēmo štitili2	bȕdēte štitili2	bȕdū štitili2
past	perfect	štitio sam2	štitio si2	štitio je2	štitili smo2	štitili ste2	štitili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam štitio2	bȉo si štitio2	bȉo je štitio2	bíli smo štitili2	bíli ste štitili2	bíli su štitili2
	imperfect	štićah	štićaše	štićaše	štićasmo	štićaste	štićahu
conditional	conditional I	štitio bih2	štitio bi2	štitio bi2	štitili bismo2	štitili biste2	štitili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih štitio2	bȉo bi štitio2	bȉo bi štitio2	bíli bismo štitili2	bíli biste štitili2	bíli bi štitili2
imperative		—	štiti	—	štitimo	štitite	—
active past participle		štitio m / štitila f / štitilo n			štitili m / štitile f / štitila n
passive past participle		štićen m / štićena f / štićeno n			štićeni m / štićene f / štićena 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

• zaštítiti

References

• “štititi”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025