letjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms
  • (Ekavian): lèteti
  • (dialectal): lèćeti
  • (Ikavian, dialectal Ijekavian and Ekavian): lètiti

Etymology

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)
    ptica može let(j)eti ― a bird can fly
    visoko let(j)eti ― to fly high
    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
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
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 će1
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 bio sam letio2 bio si letio2 bio je letio2 bili smo letjeli2 bili ste letjeli2 bili su letjeli2
Imperfect lećah lećaše lećaše lećasmo lećaste lećahu
Conditional I letio bih2 letio bi2 letio bi2 letjeli bismo2 letjeli biste2 letjeli bi2
Conditional II4 bio bih letio2 bio bi letio2 bio bi letio2 bili bismo letjeli2 bili biste letjeli2 bili 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 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
Derived terms

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