beleti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Ijekavian): bijéljeti

Etymology

From beo (“white”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /běːleti/
Hyphenation: be‧le‧ti

Verb

béleti impf (Cyrillic spelling бе́лети)

(intransitive) to become white
(reflexive) to show contrast or prominence by being white

Conjugation

Conjugation of beleti

Infinitive: beleti		Present verbal adverb: bélēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bélēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		belim	beliš	beli	belimo	belite	bele
Future	Future I	belet ću¹ beleću	belet ćeš¹ belećeš	belet će¹ beleće	belet ćemo¹ belećemo	belet ćete¹ belećete	belet će¹ beleće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm beleo²	bȕdēš beleo²	bȕdē beleo²	bȕdēmo beleli²	bȕdēte beleli²	bȕdū beleli²
Past	Perfect	beleo sam²	beleo si²	beleo je²	beleli smo²	beleli ste²	beleli su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam beleo²	bio si beleo²	bio je beleo²	bili smo beleli²	bili ste beleli²	bili su beleli²
	Imperfect	beljah	beljaše	beljaše	beljasmo	beljaste	beljahu
Conditional I		beleo bih²	beleo bi²	beleo bi²	beleli bismo²	beleli biste²	beleli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih beleo²	bio bi beleo²	bio bi beleo²	bili bismo beleli²	bili biste beleli²	bili bi beleli²
Imperative		—	beli	—	belimo	belite	—
Active past participle		beleo m / belela f / belelo n			beleli m / belele f / belela 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 have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

izbéleti
obéleti

pobéleti
zabéleti

Related terms

béliti

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:bijeljeti.

References

“beleti” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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