poletati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• polijétati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /polěːtati/
• Hyphenation: po‧le‧ta‧ti

Verb

polétati impf (Cyrillic spelling поле́тати)

1. (intransitive) to take off (of an aircraft)
2. (intransitive) to commence flying, to soar up, rise in the air

Conjugation

Conjugation of poletati

Infinitive: poletati		Present verbal adverb: poléćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: polétānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		polećem	polećeš	poleće	polećemo	polećete	poleću
Future	Future I	poletat ću1 poletaću	poletat ćeš1 poletaćeš	poletat će1 poletaće	poletat ćemo1 poletaćemo	poletat ćete1 poletaćete	poletat će1 poletaće
	Future II	bȕdēm poletao2	bȕdēš poletao2	bȕdē poletao2	bȕdēmo poletali2	bȕdēte poletali2	bȕdū poletali2
Past	Perfect	poletao sam2	poletao si2	poletao je2	poletali smo2	poletali ste2	poletali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam poletao2	bȉo si poletao2	bȉo je poletao2	bíli smo poletali2	bíli ste poletali2	bíli su poletali2
	Imperfect	poletah	poletaše	poletaše	poletasmo	poletaste	poletahu
Conditional I		poletao bih2	poletao bi2	poletao bi2	poletali bismo2	poletali biste2	poletali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih poletao2	bȉo bi poletao2	bȉo bi poletao2	bíli bismo poletali2	bíli biste poletali2	bíli bi poletali2
Imperative		—	poleći	—	polećimo	polećite	—
Active past participle		poletao m / poletala f / poletalo n			poletali m / poletale f / poletala 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.

Related terms

• polèteti pf