blejati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blějati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blěːjati/
• Hyphenation: ble‧ja‧ti

Verb

bléjati impf (Cyrillic spelling бле́јати)

1. (intransitive) to bleat, baa (to sound like a sheep or lambs)
2. (derogatory, intransitive) to gape at, stand agape

Conjugation

Conjugation of blejati

Infinitive: blejati		Present verbal adverb: bléjēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bléjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		blejim	blejiš	bleji	blejimo	blejite	bleje
Future	Future I	blejat ću1 blejaću	blejat ćeš1 blejaćeš	blejat će1 blejaće	blejat ćemo1 blejaćemo	blejat ćete1 blejaćete	blejat će1 blejaće
	Future II	bȕdēm blejao2	bȕdēš blejao2	bȕdē blejao2	bȕdēmo blejali2	bȕdēte blejali2	bȕdū blejali2
Past	Perfect	blejao sam2	blejao si2	blejao je2	blejali smo2	blejali ste2	blejali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam blejao2	bȉo si blejao2	bȉo je blejao2	bíli smo blejali2	bíli ste blejali2	bíli su blejali2
	Imperfect	blejah	blejaše	blejaše	blejasmo	blejaste	blejahu
Conditional I		blejao bih2	blejao bi2	blejao bi2	blejali bismo2	blejali biste2	blejali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih blejao2	bȉo bi blejao2	bȉo bi blejao2	bíli bismo blejali2	bíli biste blejali2	bíli bi blejali2
Imperative		—	bleji	—	blejimo	blejite	—
Active past participle		blejao m / blejala f / blejalo n			blejali m / blejale f / blejala 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

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