besediti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

bèsjediti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From bèseda.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /běsediti/
Hyphenation: be‧se‧di‧ti

Verb

bèsediti impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling бѐседити)

(intransitive, obsolete) to speak
(intransitive, obsolete) to deliver a talk or sermon

Conjugation

Conjugation of besediti

Infinitive: besediti		Present verbal adverb: bèsedēći		Past verbal adverb: bèsedīvši		Verbal noun: bèseđēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		besedim	besediš	besedi	besedimo	besedite	besede
Future	Future I	besedit ću¹ besediću	besedit ćeš¹ besedićeš	besedit će¹ besediće	besedit ćemo¹ besedićemo	besedit ćete¹ besedićete	besedit će¹ besediće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm besedio²	bȕdēš besedio²	bȕdē besedio²	bȕdēmo besedili²	bȕdēte besedili²	bȕdū besedili²
Past	Perfect	besedio sam²	besedio si²	besedio je²	besedili smo²	besedili ste²	besedili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam besedio²	bȉo si besedio²	bȉo je besedio²	bíli smo besedili²	bíli ste besedili²	bíli su besedili²
	Aorist	besedih	besedi	besedi	besedismo	besediste	besediše
	Imperfect	beseđah	beseđaše	beseđaše	beseđasmo	beseđaste	beseđahu
Conditional I		besedio bih²	besedio bi²	besedio bi²	besedili bismo²	besedili biste²	besedili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih besedio²	bȉo bi besedio²	bȉo bi besedio²	bíli bismo besedili²	bíli biste besedili²	bíli bi besedili²
Imperative		—	besedi	—	besedimo	besedite	—
Active past participle		besedio m / besedila f / besedilo n			besedili m / besedile f / besedila 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

“besediti” in Hrvatski jezični portal