seliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sedliti. Morphologically sèlo +‎ -iti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sěliti/
  • Hyphenation: se‧li‧ti

Verb

sèliti impf (Cyrillic spelling сѐлити)

  1. (intransitive, reflexive) to migrate
  2. (ambitransitive, reflexive) to move, relocate (change one's residence)

Conjugation

Conjugation of seliti
infinitive seliti
present verbal adverb sȅlēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun sȅljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present selim seliš seli selimo selite sele
future future I selit ću1
seliću
selit ćeš1
selićeš
selit će1
seliće
selit ćemo1
selićemo
selit ćete1
selićete
selit ćē1
seliće
future II bȕdēm selio2 bȕdēš selio2 bȕdē selio2 bȕdēmo selili2 bȕdēte selili2 bȕdū selili2
past perfect selio sam2 selio si2 selio je2 selili smo2 selili ste2 selili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam selio2 bȉo si selio2 bȉo je selio2 bíli smo selili2 bíli ste selili2 bíli su selili2
imperfect seljah seljaše seljaše seljasmo seljaste seljahu
conditional conditional I selio bih2 selio bi2 selio bi2 selili bismo2 selili biste2 selili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih selio2 bȉo bi selio2 bȉo bi selio2 bíli bismo selili2 bíli biste selili2 bíli bi selili2
imperative seli selimo selite
active past participle selio m / selila f / selilo n selili m / selile f / selila n
passive past participle seljen m / seljena f / seljeno n seljeni m / seljene f / seljena 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

Further reading

  • Drago Grdenić, editor (1953–1955), “seliti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 14, Zagreb: JAZU, page 827