budaliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From budàla.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /budǎliti/
Hyphenation: bu‧da‧li‧ti

Verb

budàliti impf (Cyrillic spelling буда̀лити)

(intransitive) to play, act or talk like a fool; to fool

Conjugation

Conjugation of budaliti

Infinitive: budaliti		Present verbal adverb: budàlēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: budàljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		budalim	budališ	budali	budalimo	budalite	budale
Future	Future I	budalit ću¹ budaliću	budalit ćeš¹ budalićeš	budalit će¹ budaliće	budalit ćemo¹ budalićemo	budalit ćete¹ budalićete	budalit će¹ budaliće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm budalio²	bȕdēš budalio²	bȕdē budalio²	bȕdēmo budalili²	bȕdēte budalili²	bȕdū budalili²
Past	Perfect	budalio sam²	budalio si²	budalio je²	budalili smo²	budalili ste²	budalili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam budalio²	bȉo si budalio²	bȉo je budalio²	bíli smo budalili²	bíli ste budalili²	bíli su budalili²
	Imperfect	budaljah	budaljaše	budaljaše	budaljasmo	budaljaste	budaljahu
Conditional I		budalio bih²	budalio bi²	budalio bi²	budalili bismo²	budalili biste²	budalili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih budalio²	bȉo bi budalio²	bȉo bi budalio²	bíli bismo budalili²	bíli biste budalili²	bíli bi budalili²
Imperative		—	budali	—	budalimo	budalite	—
Active past participle		budalio m / budalila f / budalilo n			budalili m / budalile f / budalila 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

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