čestitati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʃestǐːtati/
Hyphenation: čes‧ti‧ta‧ti

Verb

čestítati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling чести́тати)

to congratulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of čestitati

Infinitive: čestitati		Present verbal adverb: čestítajūći		Past verbal adverb: čestítāvši		Verbal noun: čestítānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		čestitam	čestitaš	čestita	čestitamo	čestitate	čestitaju
Future	Future I	čestitat ću¹ čestitaću	čestitat ćeš¹ čestitaćeš	čestitat će¹ čestitaće	čestitat ćemo¹ čestitaćemo	čestitat ćete¹ čestitaćete	čestitat će¹ čestitaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm čestitao²	bȕdēš čestitao²	bȕdē čestitao²	bȕdēmo čestitali²	bȕdēte čestitali²	bȕdū čestitali²
Past	Perfect	čestitao sam²	čestitao si²	čestitao je²	čestitali smo²	čestitali ste²	čestitali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam čestitao²	bio si čestitao²	bio je čestitao²	bili smo čestitali²	bili ste čestitali²	bili su čestitali²
	Aorist	čestitah	[Term?]	[Term?]	[Term?]	[Term?]	[Term?]
	Imperfect	čestitah	čestitaše	čestitaše	čestitasmo	čestitaste	čestitahu
Conditional I		čestitao bih²	čestitao bi²	čestitao bi²	čestitali bismo²	čestitali biste²	čestitali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih čestitao²	bio bi čestitao²	bio bi čestitao²	bili bismo čestitali²	bili biste čestitali²	bili bi čestitali²
Imperative		—	čestitaj	—	čestitajmo	čestitajte	—
Active past participle		čestitao m / čestitala f / čestitalo n			čestitali m / čestitale f / čestitala n
Passive past participle		čestitan m / čestitana f / čestitano n			čestitani m / čestitane f / čestitana 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.