lelekati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lelěːkati/
• Hyphenation: le‧le‧ka‧ti

Verb

lelékati impf (Cyrillic spelling леле́кати)

1. (intransitive) to wail, weep, mourn, lament

Conjugation

Conjugation of lelekati

Infinitive: lelekati		Present verbal adverb: leléčūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lelékānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		lelečem	lelečeš	leleče	lelečemo	lelečete	leleču
Future	Future I	lelekat ću1 lelekaću	lelekat ćeš1 lelekaćeš	lelekat će1 lelekaće	lelekat ćemo1 lelekaćemo	lelekat ćete1 lelekaćete	lelekat će1 lelekaće
	Future II	bȕdēm lelekao2	bȕdēš lelekao2	bȕdē lelekao2	bȕdēmo lelekali2	bȕdēte lelekali2	bȕdū lelekali2
Past	Perfect	lelekao sam2	lelekao si2	lelekao je2	lelekali smo2	lelekali ste2	lelekali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam lelekao2	bȉo si lelekao2	bȉo je lelekao2	bíli smo lelekali2	bíli ste lelekali2	bíli su lelekali2
	Imperfect	lelekah	lelekaše	lelekaše	lelekasmo	lelekaste	lelekahu
Conditional I		lelekao bih2	lelekao bi2	lelekao bi2	lelekali bismo2	lelekali biste2	lelekali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih lelekao2	bȉo bi lelekao2	bȉo bi lelekao2	bíli bismo lelekali2	bíli biste lelekali2	bíli bi lelekali2
Imperative		—	leleči	—	lelečimo	lelečite	—
Active past participle		lelekao m / lelekala f / lelekalo n			lelekali m / lelekale f / lelekala 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

• leléknuti pf