bijeljeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• béleti (Ekavian)

Etymology

From bijȇl (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bijěːʎeti/
• Hyphenation: bi‧je‧lje‧ti

Verb

bijéljeti impf (Cyrillic spelling бије́љети)

1. (intransitive) to become white
2. (reflexive) to show contrast or prominence by being white

Conjugation

Conjugation of bijeljeti

Infinitive: bijeljeti		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	bijeljet ću1 bijeljeću	bijeljet ćeš1 bijeljećeš	bijeljet će1 bijeljeće	bijeljet ćemo1 bijeljećemo	bijeljet ćete1 bijeljećete	bijeljet će1 bijeljeće
	Future II	bȕdēm bijelio2	bȕdēš bijelio2	bȕdē bijelio2	bȕdēmo bijeljeli2	bȕdēte bijeljeli2	bȕdū bijeljeli2
Past	Perfect	bijelio sam2	bijelio si2	bijelio je2	bijeljeli smo2	bijeljeli ste2	bijeljeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam bijelio2	bȉo si bijelio2	bȉo je bijelio2	bíli smo bijeljeli2	bíli ste bijeljeli2	bíli su bijeljeli2
	Imperfect	bijeljah	bijeljaše	bijeljaše	bijeljasmo	bijeljaste	bijeljahu
Conditional I		bijelio bih2	bijelio bi2	bijelio bi2	bijeljeli bismo2	bijeljeli biste2	bijeljeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih bijelio2	bȉo bi bijelio2	bȉo bi bijelio2	bíli bismo bijeljeli2	bíli biste bijeljeli2	bíli bi bijeljeli2
Imperative		—	bijeli	—	bijelimo	bijelite	—
Active past participle		bijelio m / bijeljela f / bijeljelo n			bijeljeli m / bijeljele f / bijeljela 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bijeljeti.

Derived terms

• izbijéljeti
• obijéljeti
• pobijéljeti
• zabijéljeti

Related terms

• bijéliti

References

• “bijeljeti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024