bijeliti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From bijȇl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bjěːliti/
  • Hyphenation: bije‧li‧ti

Verb

bijéliti impf (Cyrillic spelling бије́лити)

  1. (transitive) to whiten, bleach

Conjugation

Conjugation of bijeliti
infinitive bijeliti
present verbal adverb bijélēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun bijéljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present bijelim bijeliš bijeli bijelimo bijelite bijele
future future I bijelit ću1
bijeliću
bijelit ćeš1
bijelićeš
bijelit će1
bijeliće
bijelit ćemo1
bijelićemo
bijelit ćete1
bijelićete
bijelit ćē1
bijeliće
future II bȕdēm bijelio2 bȕdēš bijelio2 bȕdē bijelio2 bȕdēmo bijelili2 bȕdēte bijelili2 bȕdū bijelili2
past perfect bijelio sam2 bijelio si2 bijelio je2 bijelili smo2 bijelili ste2 bijelili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam bijelio2 bȉo si bijelio2 bȉo je bijelio2 bíli smo bijelili2 bíli ste bijelili2 bíli su bijelili2
imperfect bijeljah bijeljaše bijeljaše bijeljasmo bijeljaste bijeljahu
conditional conditional I bijelio bih2 bijelio bi2 bijelio bi2 bijelili bismo2 bijelili biste2 bijelili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih bijelio2 bȉo bi bijelio2 bȉo bi bijelio2 bíli bismo bijelili2 bíli biste bijelili2 bíli bi bijelili2
imperative bijeli bijelimo bijelite
active past participle bijelio m / bijelila f / bijelilo n bijelili m / bijelile f / bijelila n
passive past participle bijeljen m / bijeljena f / bijeljeno n bijeljeni m / bijeljene f / bijeljena 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.

Derived terms

References

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