faliti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• vâliti

Etymology

Borrowed from German fehlen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fâliti/
• Hyphenation: fa‧li‧ti

Verb

fȁliti impf (Cyrillic spelling фа̏лити)

1. (regional, transitive, intransitive) to lack, to miss, to be short of (be without something necessary for another action)

   Fališ mi! ― I miss you! (literally, “You are missing to me.”)

   Fali mu daska u glavi. ― Something's not right with him. (literally, “A plank [of wood] is missing to him in the head.”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of faliti

Infinitive: faliti		Present verbal adverb: fȁlēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: fȁljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		fȁlīm	fališ	fali	falimo	falite	fale
Future	Future I	falit ću1 faliću	falit ćeš1 falićeš	falit će1 faliće	falit ćemo1 falićemo	falit ćete1 falićete	falit će1 faliće
	Future II	bȕdēm falio2	bȕdēš falio2	bȕdē falio2	bȕdēmo falili2	bȕdēte falili2	bȕdū falili2
Past	Perfect	falio sam2	falio si2	falio je2	falili smo2	falili ste2	falili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam falio2	bȉo si falio2	bȉo je falio2	bíli smo falili2	bíli ste falili2	bíli su falili2
	Imperfect	faljah	fališe	fališe	faljasmo	faljaste	faljahu
Conditional I		falio bih2	falio bi2	falio bi2	falili bismo2	falili biste2	falili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih falio2	bȉo bi falio2	bȉo bi falio2	bíli bismo falili2	bíli biste falili2	bíli bi falili2
Imperative		—	fali	—	falimo	falite	—
Active past participle		falio m / falila f / falilo n			falili m / falile f / falila 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

• mànjkati impf, nedòstajati impf, oskudijévati / oskudévati impf