leteti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Ijekavian): lètjeti
(dialectal): lèćeti
(Ikavian, dialectal Ijekavian and Ekavian): lètiti

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *letěti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

lèteti impf (Cyrillic spelling лѐтети)

(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?
(intransitive) to pass quickly (especially of time)

vr(ij)eme leti ― the time flies
(intransitive) to rush, hurry

letim s jednog kraja grada na drugi ― I'm rushing from one corner of the city to another
(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
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	letet ću¹ leteću	letet ćeš¹ letećeš	letet će¹ leteće	letet ćemo¹ letećemo	letet ćete¹ letećete	letet će¹ leteće
Future	Future II	budem leteo²	budeš leteo²	bude leteo²	budemo leteli²	budete leteli²	budu leteli²
Past	Perfect	leteo sam²	leteo si²	leteo je²	leteli smo²	leteli ste²	leteli su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam leteo²	bio si leteo²	bio je leteo²	bili smo leteli²	bili ste leteli²	bili su leteli²
	Imperfect	lećah	lećaše	lećaše	lećasmo	lećaste	lećahu
Conditional I		leteo bih²	leteo bi²	leteo bi²	leteli bismo²	leteli biste²	leteli bi²
Conditional II		bio bih leteo²	bio bi leteo²	bio bi leteo²	bili bismo leteli²	bili biste leteli²	bili 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. * 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

izlèteti
nadlèteti
nalèteti
odlèteti
podlèteti
polèteti

prelèteti
razlèteti
salèteti
ulèteti
uzlèteti
zalèteti

References

“leteti” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 3, page 195

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɛˈteːti/
Hyphenation: le‧té‧ti

Verb

letéti impf (first-person singular present letím, past active participle lêtel)

to fly

Conjugation

Conjugation of letéti

participles	adjectival	adverbial
infinitive	letéti
supine	letèt, letét
verbal noun	letênje
present active	letèč	leté
past active	lêtel	—
past passive	—	—
	present indicative	imperative
1st singular	letím	—
2nd singular	letíš	lêti
3rd singular	letí	—
1st dual	letíva	letíva
2nd dual	letíta	letíta
3rd dual	letíta	—
1st plural	letímo	letímo
2nd plural	letíte	letíte
3rd plural	letíjo, leté	—
Compound tenses (see lêtel for all forms)
past indic.	sem lêtel
pluperfect indic.	sem bil lêtel
future indic.	bom lêtel
present cond.	bi lêtel
past cond.	bi bil lêtel

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