велим

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vʲɪˈlʲim]

Verb

вели́м (velím)

  1. first-person plural present indicative imperfective of веле́ть (velétʹ)
  2. first-person plural future indicative perfective of веле́ть (velétʹ)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *velěti, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (to wish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋěliːm/
  • Hyphenation: ве‧лим

Verb

вѐлӣм impf, pf (Latin spelling vèlīm)

  1. (intransitive) to say
    како се то вели на енглеском?how do you say that in English?

Usage notes

This verb is defective and has no infinitive form. Hypothetically it would be *veljeti/*veleti, and some dictionaries mention it as such, but it has not been attested in Serbo-Croatian.

This verb can only be used in the present and imperfect.[1]

Conjugation

References

  • велим” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 1, page 349
  1. Речник српскога језика, Матица српска, ISBN 978-86-7946-004-2
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