beliti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

bijéliti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běliti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /běːliti/
Hyphenation: be‧li‧ti

Verb

béliti impf (Cyrillic spelling бе́лити)

(transitive) to whiten, bleach

Conjugation

Conjugation of *beliti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		beliti
present verbal adverb		bélēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		béljēnje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		belim	beliš	beli	belimo	belite	bele
future	future I	belit ću¹ beliću	belit ćeš¹ belićeš	belit će¹ beliće	belit ćemo¹ belićemo	belit ćete¹ belićete	belit ćē¹ beliće
future	future II	bȕdēm belio²	bȕdēš belio²	bȕdē belio²	bȕdēmo belili²	bȕdēte belili²	bȕdū belili²
past	perfect	belio sam²	belio si²	belio je²	belili smo²	belili ste²	belili su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam belio²	bȉo si belio²	bȉo je belio²	bíli smo belili²	bíli ste belili²	bíli su belili²
	imperfect	beljah	beljaše	beljaše	beljasmo	beljaste	beljahu
conditional	conditional I	belio bih²	belio bi²	belio bi²	belili bismo²	belili biste²	belili bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih belio²	bȉo bi belio²	bȉo bi belio²	bíli bismo belili²	bíli biste belili²	bíli bi belili²
imperative		—	beli	—	belimo	belite	—
active past participle		belio m / belila f / belilo n			belili m / belile f / belila n
passive past participle		beljen m / beljena f / beljeno n			beljeni m / beljene f / beljena 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

Related terms

béleti

References

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