bleskati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From blȇsak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blêskati/
  • Hyphenation: ble‧ska‧ti

Verb

blȅskati impf (Cyrillic spelling бле̏скати)

  1. (intransitive, reflexive) to flash, glitter

Conjugation

Conjugation of bleskati
infinitive bleskati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb
verbal noun blȅskānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present bleskam bleskaš bleska bleskamo bleskate bleskaju
future future I bleskat ću1
bleskaću
bleskat ćeš1
bleskaćeš
bleskat će1
bleskaće
bleskat ćemo1
bleskaćemo
bleskat ćete1
bleskaćete
bleskat ćē1
bleskaće
future II bȕdēm bleskao2 bȕdēš bleskao2 bȕdē bleskao2 bȕdēmo bleskali2 bȕdēte bleskali2 bȕdū bleskali2
past perfect bleskao sam2 bleskao si2 bleskao je2 bleskali smo2 bleskali ste2 bleskali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam bleskao2 bȉo si bleskao2 bȉo je bleskao2 bíli smo bleskali2 bíli ste bleskali2 bíli su bleskali2
imperfect bleskah bleskaše bleskaše bleskasmo bleskaste bleskahu
conditional conditional I bleskao bih2 bleskao bi2 bleskao bi2 bleskali bismo2 bleskali biste2 bleskali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih bleskao2 bȉo bi bleskao2 bȉo bi bleskao2 bíli bismo bleskali2 bíli biste bleskali2 bíli bi bleskali2
imperative bleskaj bleskajmo bleskajte
active past participle bleskao m / bleskala f / bleskalo n bleskali m / bleskale f / bleskala 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

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