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)

(intransitive) to become white
(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	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

Related terms

bijéliti

References

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