spaliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ paliti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spǎːliti/
• Hyphenation: spa‧li‧ti

Verb

spáliti pf (Cyrillic spelling спа́лити)

1. (transitive) to burn down

Conjugation

Conjugation of spaliti

Infinitive: spaliti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: spálīvši		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		spalim	spališ	spali	spalimo	spalite	spale
Future	Future I	spalit ću1 spaliću	spalit ćeš1 spalićeš	spalit će1 spaliće	spalit ćemo1 spalićemo	spalit ćete1 spalićete	spalit će1 spaliće
	Future II	bȕdēm spalio2	bȕdēš spalio2	bȕdē spalio2	bȕdēmo spalili2	bȕdēte spalili2	bȕdū spalili2
Past	Perfect	spalio sam2	spalio si2	spalio je2	spalili smo2	spalili ste2	spalili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam spalio2	bȉo si spalio2	bȉo je spalio2	bíli smo spalili2	bíli ste spalili2	bíli su spalili2
	Aorist	spalih	spali	spali	spalismo	spaliste	spališe
Conditional I		spalio bih2	spalio bi2	spalio bi2	spalili bismo2	spalili biste2	spalili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih spalio2	bȉo bi spalio2	bȉo bi spalio2	bíli bismo spalili2	bíli biste spalili2	bíli bi spalili2
Imperative		—	spali	—	spalimo	spalite	—
Active past participle		spalio m / spalila f / spalilo n			spalili m / spalile f / spalila n
Passive past participle		spaljen m / spaljena f / spaljeno n			spaljeni m / spaljene f / spaljena 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

• spaljívati impf

Further reading

• “spaliti” in Hrvatski jezični portal