žudjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Ekavian): žúdeti

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žьlděti (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ- (“to wish for”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒǔːdjeti/
Hyphenation: žu‧dje‧ti

Verb

žúdjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling жу́дјети)

(transitive, intransitive) to long, desire, yearn, crave for

Usage notes

The verb is usually used with the preposition za (“for”), followed by an object in instrumental case. When the object is an action, it is in represented as an infinitive (Western Serbo-Croatian) or a da + present tense formation (used mostly in Eastern Serbo-Croatian). The rarest form of usage is with the direct object in accusative case.

Conjugation

Conjugation of žudjeti

Infinitive: žudjeti		Present verbal adverb: žúdēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: žúđēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		žudim	žudiš	žudi	žudimo	žudite	žude
Future	Future I	žudjet ću¹ žudjeću	žudjet ćeš¹ žudjećeš	žudjet će¹ žudjeće	žudjet ćemo¹ žudjećemo	žudjet ćete¹ žudjećete	žudjet će¹ žudjeće
Future	Future II	budem žudio²	budeš žudio²	bude žudio²	budemo žudjeli²	budete žudjeli²	budu žudjeli²
Past	Perfect	žudio sam²	žudio si²	žudio je²	žudjeli smo²	žudjeli ste²	žudjeli su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam žudio²	bio si žudio²	bio je žudio²	bili smo žudjeli²	bili ste žudjeli²	bili su žudjeli²
	Imperfect	žuđah	žuđaše	žuđaše	žuđasmo	žuđaste	žuđahu
Conditional I		žudio bih²	žudio bi²	žudio bi²	žudjeli bismo²	žudjeli biste²	žudjeli bi²
Conditional II		bio bih žudio²	bio bi žudio²	bio bi žudio²	bili bismo žudjeli²	bili biste žudjeli²	bili bi žudjeli²
Imperative		—	žudi	—	žudimo	žudite	—
Active past participle		žudio m / žudjela f / žudjelo n			žudjeli m / žudjele f / žudjela n
Passive past participle		žuđen m / žuđena f / žuđeno n			žuđeni m / žuđene f / žuđena 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. * 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

zažúdjeti

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