čestitati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃestǐːtati/
  • Hyphenation: čes‧ti‧ta‧ti

Verb

čestítati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling чести́тати)

  1. to congratulate
    Čestitala sam im na pob(j)edi. (spoken by a female)
    Čestitao sam im na pob(j)edi. (spoken by a male)
    I congratulated them on the victory.

Conjugation

Conjugation of čestitati
infinitive čestitati
present verbal adverb čestítajūći
past verbal adverb čestítāvši
verbal noun čestítānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present čestitam čestitaš čestita čestitamo čestitate čestitaju
future future I čestitat ću1
čestitaću
čestitat ćeš1
čestitaćeš
čestitat će1
čestitaće
čestitat ćemo1
čestitaćemo
čestitat ćete1
čestitaćete
čestitat ćē1
čestitaće
future II bȕdēm čestitao2 bȕdēš čestitao2 bȕdē čestitao2 bȕdēmo čestitali2 bȕdēte čestitali2 bȕdū čestitali2
past perfect čestitao sam2 čestitao si2 čestitao je2 čestitali smo2 čestitali ste2 čestitali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam čestitao2 bȉo si čestitao2 bȉo je čestitao2 bíli smo čestitali2 bíli ste čestitali2 bíli su čestitali2
aorist čestitah [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?] [Term?]
imperfect čestitah čestitaše čestitaše čestitasmo čestitaste čestitahu
conditional conditional I čestitao bih2 čestitao bi2 čestitao bi2 čestitali bismo2 čestitali biste2 čestitali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih čestitao2 bȉo bi čestitao2 bȉo bi čestitao2 bíli bismo čestitali2 bíli biste čestitali2 bíli bi čestitali2
imperative čestitaj čestitajmo čestitajte
active past participle čestitao m / čestitala f / čestitalo n čestitali m / čestitale f / čestitala n
passive past participle čestitan m / čestitana f / čestitano n čestitani m / čestitane f / čestitana 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

  • čestitati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025