slišati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• slišiti

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slyšati, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slîʃati/

Verb

slȉšati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling сли̏шати)

1. (obsolete) to hear
2. (obsolete) to question, to interrogate
   • 1521, Marko Marulić, Judita:

     Sliſcaiu zaidoſce, od chud gres i chamo
     Catgime rochoſce, prauinam da znamo.

     Sliša(t) ju zajdoše: »Od kud greš i kamo?
     Ča t’ jime?«, rekoše. »Pravi nam da znamo.«

     They came by to question her: “Where do you come from and where are you going?
     What is your name?” they said. “Tell us, that we may know.”

References

• Josip Hamm, editor (1955–1956), “slišati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 15, Zagreb: JAZU, page 540

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *slyšati, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slìːʃati/

Verb

slíšati impf or pf

1. to hear

   Synonym: čúti

Inflection

-ati -im (AP a)
infinitive	slíšati
1st singular	slȋšim
infinitive	slíšati			slíšat
supine	slíšat
verbal noun	slíšanje
	participle			converb
present	slišȅč			—
past	slȋšan			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	slíšał		slīšala		slíšalo
dual	slíšala		slíšali		slíšali
plural	slíšali		slíšale		slíšala
	present			imperative
1st singular	slȋšim			—
2nd singular	slȋšiš			slíši
3rd singular	slȋši			—
1st dual	slȋšiva			slíšiva
2nd dual	slȋšita			slíšita
3rd dual	slȋšita			—
1st plural	slȋšimo			slíšimo
2nd plural	slȋšite			slíšite
3rd plural	slȋšijo			—

Derived terms

• preslíšati
• uslíšati
• zaslíšati

Further reading

• “slišati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025