gostiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gostiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǒstiti/
• Hyphenation: gos‧ti‧ti

Verb

gòstiti impf (Cyrillic spelling го̀стити)

1. (transitive) to treat, entertain, regale (as a guest)
2. (reflexive) to feast, be a guest, banquet

Conjugation

Conjugation of gostiti

Infinitive: gostiti		Present verbal adverb: gòstēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: gòšćēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		gostim	gostiš	gosti	gostimo	gostite	goste
Future	Future I	gostit ću1 gostiću	gostit ćeš1 gostićeš	gostit će1 gostiće	gostit ćemo1 gostićemo	gostit ćete1 gostićete	gostit će1 gostiće
	Future II	bȕdēm gostio2	bȕdēš gostio2	bȕdē gostio2	bȕdēmo gostili2	bȕdēte gostili2	bȕdū gostili2
Past	Perfect	gostio sam2	gostio si2	gostio je2	gostili smo2	gostili ste2	gostili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam gostio2	bȉo si gostio2	bȉo je gostio2	bíli smo gostili2	bíli ste gostili2	bíli su gostili2
	Imperfect	gošćah	gošćaše	gošćaše	gošćasmo	gošćaste	gošćahu
Conditional I		gostio bih2	gostio bi2	gostio bi2	gostili bismo2	gostili biste2	gostili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih gostio2	bȉo bi gostio2	bȉo bi gostio2	bíli bismo gostili2	bíli biste gostili2	bíli bi gostili2
Imperative		—	gosti	—	gostimo	gostite	—
Active past participle		gostio m / gostila f / gostilo n			gostili m / gostile f / gostila n
Passive past participle		gošćen m / gošćena f / gošćeno n			gošćeni m / gošćene f / gošćena 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.

Derived terms

• pogòstiti
• ugòstiti

Further reading

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