žeći

See also: zeci and żęci

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žeťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *degtéi, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti (“to burn”). First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒětɕi/ (žèći)
IPA^(key): /ʒêtɕi/ (žȅći)
Hyphenation: že‧ći

Verb

žèći impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐћи) or žȅći impf (Cyrillic spelling же̏ћи)

(transitive, intransitive) to burn

Conjugation

Conjugation of žeći

Infinitive: žeći		Present verbal adverb: žȅžūći		Past verbal adverb: žègāvši		Verbal noun: žèžēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		žèžēm	žežeš	žeže	žežemo	žežete	žègū
Future	Future I	žeći ću	žeći ćeš	žeći će	žeći ćemo	žeći ćete	žeći će
Future	Future II	bȕdēm žȅgao²	bȕdēš žȅgao²	bȕdē žȅgao²	bȕdēmo žegli²	bȕdēte žegli²	bȕdū žegli²
Past	Perfect	žȅgao sam²	žȅgao si²	žȅgao je²	žegli smo²	žegli ste²	žegli su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam žȅgao²	bȉo si žȅgao²	bȉo je žȅgao²	bíli smo žegli²	bíli ste žegli²	bíli su žegli²
	Aorist	žègoh	žȅže	žȅže	žegosmo	žegoste	žegoše
	Imperfect	žèzijāh	žezijaše	žezijaše	žezijasmo	žezijaste	žezijahu
Conditional I		žȅgao bih²	žȅgao bi²	žȅgao bi²	žegli bismo²	žegli biste²	žegli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih žȅgao²	bȉo bi žȅgao²	bȉo bi žȅgao²	bíli bismo žegli²	bíli biste žegli²	bíli bi žegli²
Imperative		—	žèzi	—	žezimo	žezite	—
Active past participle		žȅgao m / žègla f / žeglo n			žegli m / žegle f / žegla n
Passive past participle		žèžen m / žežèna f / žeženo n			žeženi m / žežene f / žežena 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.

Derived terms

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žèći”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 627

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žèći”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 627

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