seliti
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sedliti. Morphologically sèlo + -iti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sěliti/
- Hyphenation: se‧li‧ti
Verb
sèliti impf (Cyrillic spelling сѐлити)
- (intransitive, reflexive) to migrate
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to move, relocate (change one's residence)
Conjugation
Conjugation of seliti
Infinitive: seliti | Present verbal adverb: sȅlēći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: sȅljēnje | ||||
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Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
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 će1 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 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. |
Derived terms
- dosèliti
- isèliti
- presèliti
- rasèliti
- usèliti
Related terms
- seòba
- sèlidba
Further reading
- Drago Grdenić, editor (1953-1955), “seliti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 14, Zagreb: JAZU, page 827