češati

See also: Cesati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *česati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *késtei.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃěʃati/
Hyphenation: če‧ša‧ti

Verb

čèšati impf (Cyrillic spelling чѐшати)

(transitive, reflexive) to scratch
(transitive) to curry, dress (horse)
(transitive) to card, tease, comb (wool)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *češati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		češati
present verbal adverb		čȅšūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		čèšānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		češem	češeš	češe	češemo	češete	češu
future	future I	češat ću¹ češaću	češat ćeš¹ češaćeš	češat će¹ češaće	češat ćemo¹ češaćemo	češat ćete¹ češaćete	češat ćē¹ češaće
future	future II	bȕdēm češao²	bȕdēš češao²	bȕdē češao²	bȕdēmo češali²	bȕdēte češali²	bȕdū češali²
past	perfect	češao sam²	češao si²	češao je²	češali smo²	češali ste²	češali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam češao²	bȉo si češao²	bȉo je češao²	bíli smo češali²	bíli ste češali²	bíli su češali²
	imperfect	češah	češaše	češaše	češasmo	češaste	češahu
conditional	conditional I	češao bih²	češao bi²	češao bi²	češali bismo²	češali biste²	češali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih češao²	bȉo bi češao²	bȉo bi češao²	bíli bismo češali²	bíli biste češali²	bíli bi češali²
imperative		—	češaj	—	češajmo	češajte	—
active past participle		češao m / češala f / češalo n			češali m / češale f / češala n
passive past participle		češan m / češana f / češano n			češani m / češane f / češana 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.

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