beleti

See also: beleťi and Beleți

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bijéljeti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělěti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běːleti/
• Hyphenation: be‧le‧ti

Verb

béleti impf (Cyrillic spelling бе́лети)

1. (intransitive) to become white
2. (reflexive) to show contrast or prominence by being white

Conjugation

Conjugation of beleti

Infinitive: beleti		Present verbal adverb: bélēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bélēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		belim	beliš	beli	belimo	belite	bele
Future	Future I	belet ću1 beleću	belet ćeš1 belećeš	belet će1 beleće	belet ćemo1 belećemo	belet ćete1 belećete	belet će1 beleće
	Future II	bȕdēm beleo2	bȕdēš beleo2	bȕdē beleo2	bȕdēmo beleli2	bȕdēte beleli2	bȕdū beleli2
Past	Perfect	beleo sam2	beleo si2	beleo je2	beleli smo2	beleli ste2	beleli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam beleo2	bȉo si beleo2	bȉo je beleo2	bíli smo beleli2	bíli ste beleli2	bíli su beleli2
	Imperfect	beljah	beljaše	beljaše	beljasmo	beljaste	beljahu
Conditional I		beleo bih2	beleo bi2	beleo bi2	beleli bismo2	beleli biste2	beleli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih beleo2	bȉo bi beleo2	bȉo bi beleo2	bíli bismo beleli2	bíli biste beleli2	bíli bi beleli2
Imperative		—	beli	—	belimo	belite	—
Active past participle		beleo m / belela f / belelo n			beleli m / belele f / belela 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bijeljeti.

Derived terms

• izbéleti
• obéleti
• pobéleti
• zabéleti

Related terms

• béliti

References

• “beleti” in Hrvatski jezični portal