češati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *česati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʃěʃati/
Hyphenation: če‧ša‧ti

Verb

čèšati impf (Cyrillic spelling чѐшати)

(transitive, reflexive) to scratch
(transitive) to curry, dress (horse)
(transitive) to card, tease, comb (wool)

Conjugation

Conjugation of češati

Infinitive: češati		Present verbal adverb: čȅšūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: čèšānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		češem	češeš	češe	češemo	češete	češu
Future	Future I	češat ću¹ češaću	češat ćeš¹ češaćeš	češat će¹ češaće	češat ćemo¹ češaćemo	češat ćete¹ češaćete	češat će¹ češaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm češao²	bȕdēš češao²	bȕdē češao²	bȕdēmo češali²	bȕdēte češali²	bȕdū češali²
Past	Perfect	češao sam²	češao si²	češao je²	češali smo²	češali ste²	češali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam češao²	bio si češao²	bio je češao²	bili smo češali²	bili ste češali²	bili su češali²
	Imperfect	češah	češaše	češaše	češasmo	češaste	češahu
Conditional I		češao bih²	češao bi²	češao bi²	češali bismo²	češali biste²	češali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih češao²	bio bi češao²	bio bi češao²	bili bismo češali²	bili biste češali²	bili bi češali²
Imperative		—	češaj	—	češajmo	češajte	—
Active past participle		češao m / češala f / češalo n			češali m / češale f / češala n
Passive past participle		češan m / češana f / češano n			češani m / češane f / češana 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 have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

očèšati
počèšati

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