besnjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bjèsnjeti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From bȇs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běsɲeti/
• Hyphenation: bes‧nje‧ti

Verb

bèsnjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling бѐсњети)

1. (intransitive) to rage, be furious or infuriated
2. (intransitive) to rage, be rampant or rife, to run wild (of a war, crisis, epidemic etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of besnjeti

Infinitive: besnjeti		Present verbal adverb: bèsnēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bèšnjēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		besnim	besniš	besni	besnimo	besnite	besne
Future	Future I	besnjet ću1 besnjeću	besnjet ćeš1 besnjećeš	besnjet će1 besnjeće	besnjet ćemo1 besnjećemo	besnjet ćete1 besnjećete	besnjet će1 besnjeće
	Future II	bȕdēm besnio2	bȕdēš besnio2	bȕdē besnio2	bȕdēmo besnjeli / benjeli2	bȕdēte besnjeli / benjeli2	bȕdū besnjeli / benjeli2
Past	Perfect	besnio sam2	besnio si2	besnio je2	besnjeli / benjeli smo2	besnjeli / benjeli ste2	besnjeli / benjeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam besnio2	bȉo si besnio2	bȉo je besnio2	bíli smo besnjeli / benjeli2	bíli ste besnjeli / benjeli2	bíli su besnjeli / benjeli2
	Imperfect	bešnjah	bešnjaše	bešnjaše	bešnjasmo	bešnjaste	bešnjahu
Conditional I		besnio bih2	besnio bi2	besnio bi2	besnjeli / benjeli bismo2	besnjeli / benjeli biste2	besnjeli / benjeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih besnio2	bȉo bi besnio2	bȉo bi besnio2	bíli bismo besnjeli / benjeli2	bíli biste besnjeli / benjeli2	bíli bi besnjeli / benjeli2
Imperative		—	besni	—	besnimo	besnite	—
Active past participle		besnio m / besnjela / bešnjela f / besnjelo / bešnjelo n			besnjeli / benjeli m / besnjele / bešnjele f / besnjela / bešnjela 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.

References

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