lelekati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Of imitative origin and possibly related to lelek (nightjar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lelěːkati/
  • Hyphenation: le‧le‧ka‧ti

Verb

lelékati impf (Cyrillic spelling леле́кати)

  1. (intransitive) to wail, weep, mourn, lament

Conjugation

Conjugation of lelekati
infinitive lelekati
present verbal adverb leléčūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun lelékānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present lelečem lelečeš leleče lelečemo lelečete leleču
future future I lelekat ću1
lelekaću
lelekat ćeš1
lelekaćeš
lelekat će1
lelekaće
lelekat ćemo1
lelekaćemo
lelekat ćete1
lelekaćete
lelekat ćē1
lelekaće
future II bȕdēm lelekao2 bȕdēš lelekao2 bȕdē lelekao2 bȕdēmo lelekali2 bȕdēte lelekali2 bȕdū lelekali2
past perfect lelekao sam2 lelekao si2 lelekao je2 lelekali smo2 lelekali ste2 lelekali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam lelekao2 bȉo si lelekao2 bȉo je lelekao2 bíli smo lelekali2 bíli ste lelekali2 bíli su lelekali2
imperfect lelekah lelekaše lelekaše lelekasmo lelekaste lelekahu
conditional conditional I lelekao bih2 lelekao bi2 lelekao bi2 lelekali bismo2 lelekali biste2 lelekali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih lelekao2 bȉo bi lelekao2 bȉo bi lelekao2 bíli bismo lelekali2 bíli biste lelekali2 bíli bi lelekali2
imperative leleči lelečimo lelečite
active past participle lelekao m / lelekala f / lelekalo n lelekali m / lelekale f / lelekala 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.