beleti

See also: beleťi and Beleți

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělěti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

béleti impf (Cyrillic spelling бе́лети)

  1. (intransitive) to become white
  2. (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
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
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 ćē1
beleće
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 bȉo sam beleo2 bȉo si beleo2 bȉo je beleo2 bíli smo beleli2 bíli ste beleli2 bíli su beleli2
imperfect beljah beljaše beljaše beljasmo beljaste beljahu
conditional conditional I beleo bih2 beleo bi2 beleo bi2 beleli bismo2 beleli biste2 beleli bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih beleo2 bȉo bi beleo2 bȉo bi beleo2 bíli bismo beleli2 bíli biste beleli2 bíli 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 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.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bijeljeti.

Derived terms

  • izbéleti
  • obéleti
  • pobéleti
  • zabéleti

References

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