kesiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin; possibly related to Albanian qesh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kěːsiti/
• Hyphenation: ke‧si‧ti

Verb

késiti impf (Cyrillic spelling ке́сити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to bare or show one's teeth

Conjugation

Conjugation of kesiti

Infinitive: kesiti		Present verbal adverb: késēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kéšēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kesim	kesiš	kesi	kesimo	kesite	kese
Future	Future I	kesit ću1 kesiću	kesit ćeš1 kesićeš	kesit će1 kesiće	kesit ćemo1 kesićemo	kesit ćete1 kesićete	kesit će1 kesiće
	Future II	bȕdēm kesio2	bȕdēš kesio2	bȕdē kesio2	bȕdēmo kesili2	bȕdēte kesili2	bȕdū kesili2
Past	Perfect	kesio sam2	kesio si2	kesio je2	kesili smo2	kesili ste2	kesili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kesio2	bȉo si kesio2	bȉo je kesio2	bíli smo kesili2	bíli ste kesili2	bíli su kesili2
	Imperfect	kešah	kešaše	kešaše	kešasmo	kešaste	kešahu
Conditional I		kesio bih2	kesio bi2	kesio bi2	kesili bismo2	kesili biste2	kesili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kesio2	bȉo bi kesio2	bȉo bi kesio2	bíli bismo kesili2	bíli biste kesili2	bíli bi kesili2
Imperative		—	kesi	—	kesimo	kesite	—
Active past participle		kesio m / kesila f / kesilo n			kesili m / kesile f / kesila 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

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