željeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• žèleti (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *želěti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒěʎeti/
• Hyphenation: že‧lje‧ti

Verb

žèljeti impf (Cyrillic spelling жѐљети)

1. (transitive) to wish, desire (+ accusative or genitive)

   željeti sretan put - to wish "Bon Voyage"

Conjugation

Conjugation of željeti

Infinitive: željeti		Present verbal adverb: žèlēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: žèljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		želim	želiš	želi	želimo	želite	žele
Future	Future I	željet ću1 željeću	željet ćeš1 željećeš	željet će1 željeće	željet ćemo1 željećemo	željet ćete1 željećete	željet će1 željeće
	Future II	bȕdēm želio2	bȕdēš želio2	bȕdē želio2	bȕdēmo željeli2	bȕdēte željeli2	bȕdū željeli2
Past	Perfect	želio sam2	želio si2	želio je2	željeli smo2	željeli ste2	željeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam želio2	bȉo si želio2	bȉo je želio2	bíli smo željeli2	bíli ste željeli2	bíli su željeli2
	Imperfect	željah	željaše	željaše	željasmo	željaste	željahu
Conditional I		želio bih2	želio bi2	želio bi2	željeli bismo2	željeli biste2	željeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih želio2	bȉo bi želio2	bȉo bi želio2	bíli bismo željeli2	bíli biste željeli2	bíli bi željeli2
Imperative		—	želi	—	želimo	želite	—
Active past participle		želio m / željela f / željelo n			željeli m / željele f / željela n
Passive past participle		željen m / željena f / željeno n			željeni m / željene f / željena 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

• požèljeti
• zažèljeti
• užèljeti

Related terms

• želja

Further reading

• “željeti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024