bijeliti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

béliti (Ekavian)

Etymology

From bijȇl.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bijěːliti/
Hyphenation: bi‧je‧li‧ti

Verb

bijéliti impf (Cyrillic spelling бије́лити)

(transitive) to whiten, bleach

Conjugation

Conjugation of bijeliti

Infinitive: bijeliti		Present verbal adverb: bijélēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bijéljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bijelim	bijeliš	bijeli	bijelimo	bijelite	bijele
Future	Future I	bijelit ću¹ bijeliću	bijelit ćeš¹ bijelićeš	bijelit će¹ bijeliće	bijelit ćemo¹ bijelićemo	bijelit ćete¹ bijelićete	bijelit će¹ bijeliće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm bijelio²	bȕdēš bijelio²	bȕdē bijelio²	bȕdēmo bijelili²	bȕdēte bijelili²	bȕdū bijelili²
Past	Perfect	bijelio sam²	bijelio si²	bijelio je²	bijelili smo²	bijelili ste²	bijelili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam bijelio²	bȉo si bijelio²	bȉo je bijelio²	bíli smo bijelili²	bíli ste bijelili²	bíli su bijelili²
	Imperfect	bijeljah	bijeljaše	bijeljaše	bijeljasmo	bijeljaste	bijeljahu
Conditional I		bijelio bih²	bijelio bi²	bijelio bi²	bijelili bismo²	bijelili biste²	bijelili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih bijelio²	bȉo bi bijelio²	bȉo bi bijelio²	bíli bismo bijelili²	bíli biste bijelili²	bíli bi bijelili²
Imperative		—	bijeli	—	bijelimo	bijelite	—
Active past participle		bijelio m / bijelila f / bijelilo n			bijelili m / bijelile f / bijelila n
Passive past participle		bijeljen m / bijeljena f / bijeljeno n			bijeljeni m / bijeljene f / bijeljena 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

bijéljeti

References

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