častiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьstiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃǎstiti/
• Hyphenation: ča‧sti‧ti

Verb

čàstiti pf (Cyrillic spelling ча̀стити, imperfective čašćávati)

1. (reflexive) to treat oneself, to indulge
2. (transitive) to regale
3. (transitive, rare) to honor
4. (transitive, figurative, ironic) to insult

Conjugation

Conjugation of častiti

Infinitive: častiti		Present verbal adverb: čàstēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: čàšćēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		čàstīm	čàstīš	čàstī	čàstīmo	čàstīte	čàstē
Future	Future I	čàstit ću1 čàstiću	čàstit ćeš1 čàstićeš	čàstit će1 čàstiće	čàstit ćemo1 čàstićemo	čàstit ćete1 čàstićete	čàstit ćē1 čàstiće
	Future II	bȕdēm čàstio2	bȕdēš čàstio2	bȕdē čàstio2	bȕdēmo čàstili2	bȕdēte čàstili2	bȕdū čàstili2
Past	Perfect	čàstio sam2	čàstio si2	čàstio je2	čàstili smo2	čàstili ste2	čàstili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam čàstio2	bȉo si čàstio2	bȉo je čàstio2	bíli smo čàstili2	bíli ste čàstili2	bíli su čàstili2
	Imperfect	čàšćah	čàšćaše	čàšćaše	čàšćasmo	čàšćaste	čàšćahu
Conditional I		čàstio bih2	čàstio bi2	čàstio bi2	čàstili bismo2	čàstili biste2	čàstili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih čàstio2	bȉo bi čàstio2	bȉo bi čàstio2	bíli bismo čàstili2	bíli biste čàstili2	bíli bi čàstili2
Imperative		—	čàsti	—	čàstimo	čàstite	—
Active past participle		čàstio m / čàstila f / čàstilo n			čàstili m / čàstile f / čàstila n
Passive past participle		čȁšćen m / čȁšćena f / čȁšćeno n			čȁšćeni m / čȁšćene f / čȁšćena 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

• počàstiti pf

Further reading

• “častiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025