bježati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

bèžati (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běžàti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bjěʒati/
Hyphenation: bje‧ža‧ti

Verb

bjèžati impf (Cyrillic spelling бјѐжати, perfective pòbjeći)

(intransitive) to flee, run away

Conjugation

Conjugation of bježati

Infinitive: bježati		Present verbal adverb: bjèžēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bjèžānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bježim	bježiš	bježi	bježimo	bježite	bježe
Future	Future I	bježat ću¹ bježaću	bježat ćeš¹ bježaćeš	bježat će¹ bježaće	bježat ćemo¹ bježaćemo	bježat ćete¹ bježaćete	bježat će¹ bježaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm bježao²	bȕdēš bježao²	bȕdē bježao²	bȕdēmo bježali²	bȕdēte bježali²	bȕdū bježali²
Past	Perfect	bježao sam²	bježao si²	bježao je²	bježali smo²	bježali ste²	bježali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam bježao²	bȉo si bježao²	bȉo je bježao²	bíli smo bježali²	bíli ste bježali²	bíli su bježali²
	Imperfect	bježah	bježaše	bježaše	bježasmo	bježaste	bježahu
Conditional I		bježao bih²	bježao bi²	bježao bi²	bježali bismo²	bježali biste²	bježali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih bježao²	bȉo bi bježao²	bȉo bi bježao²	bíli bismo bježali²	bíli biste bježali²	bíli bi bježali²
Imperative		—	bježi	—	bježimo	bježite	—
Active past participle		bježao m / bježala f / bježalo n			bježali m / bježale f / bježala 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

Related terms

bijeg