blenuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blęsti (Old East Slavic блясти (bljasti)), Compare blud, bludjeti/bludeti, related to Lithuanian blęsti and German blind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blênuti/
• Hyphenation: ble‧nu‧ti

Verb

blȅnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling бле̏нути)

1. (intransitive) to gape, stand agape

Conjugation

Conjugation of blenuti

Infinitive: blenuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: blȅnūvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		blenem	bleneš	blene	blenemo	blenete	blenu
Future	Future I	blenut ću1 blenuću	blenut ćeš1 blenućeš	blenut će1 blenuće	blenut ćemo1 blenućemo	blenut ćete1 blenućete	blenut će1 blenuće
	Future II	bȕdēm blenuo2	bȕdēš blenuo2	bȕdē blenuo2	bȕdēmo blenuli2	bȕdēte blenuli2	bȕdū blenuli2
Past	Perfect	blenuo sam2	blenuo si2	blenuo je2	blenuli smo2	blenuli ste2	blenuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam blenuo2	bȉo si blenuo2	bȉo je blenuo2	bíli smo blenuli2	bíli ste blenuli2	bíli su blenuli2
	Aorist	blenuh	blenu	blenu	blenusmo	blenuste	blenuše
Conditional I		blenuo bih2	blenuo bi2	blenuo bi2	blenuli bismo2	blenuli biste2	blenuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih blenuo2	bȉo bi blenuo2	bȉo bi blenuo2	bíli bismo blenuli2	bíli biste blenuli2	bíli bi blenuli2
Imperative		—	bleni	—	blenimo	blenite	—
Active past participle		blenuo m / blenula f / blenulo n			blenuli m / blenule f / blenula 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.

Related terms

• blesav

References

• “blenuti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024