žaliti

See also: zaliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaliti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒâliti/
• Hyphenation: ža‧li‧ti

Verb

žȁliti impf (Cyrillic spelling жа̏лити)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to mourn, grieve
2. (transitive) to pity, feel sorry for
3. (intransitive) to regret, be sorry
4. (intransitive) to miss, long for
5. (reflexive) to complain

Conjugation

Conjugation of žaliti

Infinitive: žaliti		Present verbal adverb: žȁlēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: žȁljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		žalim	žališ	žali	žalimo	žalite	žale
Future	Future I	žalit ću1 žaliću	žalit ćeš1 žalićeš	žalit će1 žaliće	žalit ćemo1 žalićemo	žalit ćete1 žalićete	žalit će1 žaliće
	Future II	bȕdēm žalio2	bȕdēš žalio2	bȕdē žalio2	bȕdēmo žalili2	bȕdēte žalili2	bȕdū žalili2
Past	Perfect	žalio sam2	žalio si2	žalio je2	žalili smo2	žalili ste2	žalili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam žalio2	bȉo si žalio2	bȉo je žalio2	bíli smo žalili2	bíli ste žalili2	bíli su žalili2
	Imperfect	žaljah	žaljaše	žaljaše	žaljasmo	žaljaste	žaljahu
Conditional I		žalio bih2	žalio bi2	žalio bi2	žalili bismo2	žalili biste2	žalili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih žalio2	bȉo bi žalio2	bȉo bi žalio2	bíli bismo žalili2	bíli biste žalili2	bíli bi žalili2
Imperative		—	žali	—	žalimo	žalite	—
Active past participle		žalio m / žalila f / žalilo n			žalili m / žalile f / žalila 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.

Derived terms

• òžaliti
• pòžaliti
• prèžaliti
• ràžaliti
• sàžaliti
• zàžaliti

Related terms

• žao

Further reading

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