bdjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bdȅti (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъděti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to (be) awake”), cognate with Czech bdít.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bdjêti/
• Hyphenation: bdje‧ti

Verb

bdjȅti impf (Cyrillic spelling бдје̏ти)

1. (intransitive) to watch over, keep vigil (+ nad (“over”) + instrumental)

   c(ij)elu noć je majka bd(j)ela nad d(j)etetom ― the mother was watching over the child the whole night

Conjugation

Conjugation of bdjeti

Infinitive: bdjeti		Present verbal adverb: bdȇći/bdȉjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bdjénje/bdȉjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bdijem / bdim	bdiješ / bdiš	bdije / bdi	bdijemo / bdimo	bdijete / bdite	bdiju / bde
Future	Future I	bdjet ću1 bdjeću	bdjet ćeš1 bdjećeš	bdjet će1 bdjeće	bdjet ćemo1 bdjećemo	bdjet ćete1 bdjećete	bdjet će1 bdjeće
	Future II	bȕdēm bdio2	bȕdēš bdio2	bȕdē bdio2	bȕdēmo bdjeli2	bȕdēte bdjeli2	bȕdū bdjeli2
Past	Perfect	bdio sam2	bdio si2	bdio je2	bdjeli smo2	bdjeli ste2	bdjeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam bdio2	bȉo si bdio2	bȉo je bdio2	bíli smo bdjeli2	bíli ste bdjeli2	bíli su bdjeli2
	Imperfect	bdijah / bđah	bdijaše / bđaše	bdijaše / bđaše	bdijasmo / bđasmo	bdijaste / bđaste	bdijahu / bđahu
Conditional I		bdio bih2	bdio bi2	bdio bi2	bdjeli bismo2	bdjeli biste2	bdjeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih bdio2	bȉo bi bdio2	bȉo bi bdio2	bíli bismo bdjeli2	bíli biste bdjeli2	bíli bi bdjeli2
Imperative		—	bdij / bdi	—	bdijmo / bdimo	bdijte / bdite	—
Active past participle		bdio m / bdjela f / bdjelo n			bdjeli m / bdjele f / bdjela 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

• pròbdjeti

References

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