letjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *letěti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lětjeti/
  • Hyphenation: le‧tje‧ti

Verb

lètjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling лѐтјети)

  1. (intransitive) to fly (of birds etc., or in an aircraft)
    visoko let(j)eti ― to fly high
    Ptica može let(j)eti. ― A bird can fly.
    Mrzim let(j)eti/da letim. ― I hate flying.
    Mora biti predivno let(j)eti nebom. ― It must be wonderful flying through the sky.
    Zašto se bojite let(j)eti/da letite? ― Why are you afraid of flying?
  2. (intransitive) to pass quickly, fly (especially of time)
    Vr(ij)eme leti. ― The time flies.
  3. (intransitive) to rush, hurry
    Letim s jednog kraja grada na drugi. ― I'm rushing from one corner of the city to another.
  4. (intransitive) to fly through something (as if thrown)
    Kamenje je let(j)elo zrakom. ― Stones were flying through the air.

Conjugation

Conjugation of letjeti
infinitive letjeti
present verbal adverb lètēći
past verbal adverb —
verbal noun lètēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present letim letiš leti letimo letite lete
future future I letjet ću1
letjeću 		letjet ćeš1
letjećeš 		letjet će1
letjeće 		letjet ćemo1
letjećemo 		letjet ćete1
letjećete 		letjet ćē1
letjeće
future II bȕdēm letio2 bȕdēš letio2 bȕdē letio2 bȕdēmo letjeli2 bȕdēte letjeli2 bȕdū letjeli2
past perfect letio sam2 letio si2 letio je2 letjeli smo2 letjeli ste2 letjeli su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam letio2 bȉo si letio2 bȉo je letio2 bíli smo letjeli2 bíli ste letjeli2 bíli su letjeli2
imperfect lećah lećaše lećaše lećasmo lećaste lećahu
conditional conditional I letio bih2 letio bi2 letio bi2 letjeli bismo2 letjeli biste2 letjeli bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih letio2 bȉo bi letio2 bȉo bi letio2 bíli bismo letjeli2 bíli biste letjeli2 bíli bi letjeli2
imperative — leti — letimo letite —
active past participle letio m / letjela f / letjelo n letjeli m / letjele f / letjela 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

  • “letjeti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • “letjeti”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 3, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 195
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