bleštiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

blijéštiti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From blȇsak.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /blěːʃtiti/
Hyphenation: ble‧šti‧ti

Verb

bléštiti impf (Cyrillic spelling бле́штити)

(intransitive, reflexive) to blaze, flash, glare, flare
(intransitive, reflexive) to glimmer, glisten

Conjugation

Conjugation of bleštiti

Infinitive: bleštiti		Present verbal adverb: bléštēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bléštēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bleštim	bleštiš	blešti	bleštimo	bleštite	blešte
Future	Future I	bleštit ću¹ bleštiću	bleštit ćeš¹ bleštićeš	bleštit će¹ bleštiće	bleštit ćemo¹ bleštićemo	bleštit ćete¹ bleštićete	bleštit će¹ bleštiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm bleštio²	bȕdēš bleštio²	bȕdē bleštio²	bȕdēmo bleštili²	bȕdēte bleštili²	bȕdū bleštili²
Past	Perfect	bleštio sam²	bleštio si²	bleštio je²	bleštili smo²	bleštili ste²	bleštili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam bleštio²	bȉo si bleštio²	bȉo je bleštio²	bíli smo bleštili²	bíli ste bleštili²	bíli su bleštili²
	Imperfect	bleštah	bleštaše	bleštaše	bleštasmo	bleštaste	bleštahu
Conditional I		bleštio bih²	bleštio bi²	bleštio bi²	bleštili bismo²	bleštili biste²	bleštili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih bleštio²	bȉo bi bleštio²	bȉo bi bleštio²	bíli bismo bleštili²	bíli biste bleštili²	bíli bi bleštili²
Imperative		—	blešti	—	bleštimo	bleštite	—
Active past participle		bleštio m / bleštila f / bleštilo n			bleštili m / bleštile f / bleštila 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

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