leteti

See also: letěti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *letěti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lěteti/
  • Hyphenation: le‧te‧ti

Verb

lèteti impf (Cyrillic spelling лѐтети) (Ekavian)

  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 (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 being thrown in the air

Conjugation

Conjugation of leteti
infinitive leteti
present verbal adverb lètēći
past verbal adverb —
verbal noun lètēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present letim letiš leti letimo letite lete
future future I letet ću1
leteću 		letet ćeš1
letećeš 		letet će1
leteće 		letet ćemo1
letećemo 		letet ćete1
letećete 		letet ćē1
leteće
future II bȕdēm leteo2 bȕdēš leteo2 bȕdē leteo2 bȕdēmo leteli2 bȕdēte leteli2 bȕdū leteli2
past perfect leteo sam2 leteo si2 leteo je2 leteli smo2 leteli ste2 leteli su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam leteo2 bȉo si leteo2 bȉo je leteo2 bíli smo leteli2 bíli ste leteli2 bíli su leteli2
imperfect lećah lećaše lećaše lećasmo lećaste lećahu
conditional conditional I leteo bih2 leteo bi2 leteo bi2 leteli bismo2 leteli biste2 leteli bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih leteo2 bȉo bi leteo2 bȉo bi leteo2 bíli bismo leteli2 bíli biste leteli2 bíli bi leteli2
imperative — leti — letimo letite —
active past participle leteo m / letela f / letelo n leteli m / letele f / letela 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 were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

References

  • “leteti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • “leteti”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика [Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање [Second Phototype Edition], volume 3, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 195

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *letěti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛtèːti/
  • Hyphenation: le‧te‧ti

Verb

letẹ́ti impf

  1. to fly

Conjugation

-eti -im
infinitive letẹ́ti
1st singular letím
infinitive letẹ́ti letȅt, letẹ̑t
supine letȅt, letẹ̑t
verbal noun leténje
participle converb
present letȅč letẹ̄
past — —
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular léteł letẹ̄la letẹ́lo
dual letẹ́la letẹ́li letẹ́li
plural letẹ́li letẹ́le letẹ́la
present imperative
1st singular letím —
2nd singular letíš léti
3rd singular letí —
1st dual letíva letȋva
2nd dual letíta letȋta
3rd dual letíta —
1st plural letímo letȋmo
2nd plural letíte letȋte
3rd plural letíjo —

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “leteti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
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