bleskati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• blȉskati
• bljȅskati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From blȇsak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blêskati/
• Hyphenation: ble‧ska‧ti

Verb

blȅskati impf (Cyrillic spelling бле̏скати)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) to flash, glitter

Conjugation

Conjugation of bleskati

Infinitive: bleskati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: blȅskānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bleskam	bleskaš	bleska	bleskamo	bleskate	bleskaju
Future	Future I	bleskat ću1 bleskaću	bleskat ćeš1 bleskaćeš	bleskat će1 bleskaće	bleskat ćemo1 bleskaćemo	bleskat ćete1 bleskaćete	bleskat će1 bleskaće
	Future II	bȕdēm bleskao2	bȕdēš bleskao2	bȕdē bleskao2	bȕdēmo bleskali2	bȕdēte bleskali2	bȕdū bleskali2
Past	Perfect	bleskao sam2	bleskao si2	bleskao je2	bleskali smo2	bleskali ste2	bleskali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam bleskao2	bȉo si bleskao2	bȉo je bleskao2	bíli smo bleskali2	bíli ste bleskali2	bíli su bleskali2
	Imperfect	bleskah	bleskaše	bleskaše	bleskasmo	bleskaste	bleskahu
Conditional I		bleskao bih2	bleskao bi2	bleskao bi2	bleskali bismo2	bleskali biste2	bleskali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih bleskao2	bȉo bi bleskao2	bȉo bi bleskao2	bíli bismo bleskali2	bíli biste bleskali2	bíli bi bleskali2
Imperative		—	bleskaj	—	bleskajmo	bleskajte	—
Active past participle		bleskao m / bleskala f / bleskalo n			bleskali m / bleskale f / bleskala 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

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