letjeti

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

• izlètjeti
• letelica
• nadlètjeti
• nalètjeti
• odlètjeti
• podlètjeti
• polètjeti

• prelètjeti
• razlètjeti
• salètjeti
• slètjeti
• ulètjeti
• uzlètjeti
• zalètjeti

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