štedjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): štédeti

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ščęděti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtěːdjeti/
• Hyphenation: šte‧dje‧ti

Verb

štédjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling ште́дјети)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to save (store for future use)
2. (transitive, intransitive) to save, economize
3. (transitive) to spare

Conjugation

Conjugation of štedjeti

Infinitive: štedjeti		Present verbal adverb: štédēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: štéđēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		štedim	štediš	štedi	štedimo	štedite	štede
Future	Future I	štedjet ću1 štedjeću	štedjet ćeš1 štedjećeš	štedjet će1 štedjeće	štedjet ćemo1 štedjećemo	štedjet ćete1 štedjećete	štedjet će1 štedjeće
	Future II	bȕdēm štedio2	bȕdēš štedio2	bȕdē štedio2	bȕdēmo štedjeli2	bȕdēte štedjeli2	bȕdū štedjeli2
Past	Perfect	štedio sam2	štedio si2	štedio je2	štedjeli smo2	štedjeli ste2	štedjeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam štedio2	bȉo si štedio2	bȉo je štedio2	bíli smo štedjeli2	bíli ste štedjeli2	bíli su štedjeli2
	Imperfect	šteđah	šteđaše	šteđaše	šteđasmo	šteđaste	šteđahu
Conditional I		štedio bih2	štedio bi2	štedio bi2	štedjeli bismo2	štedjeli biste2	štedjeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih štedio2	bȉo bi štedio2	bȉo bi štedio2	bíli bismo štedjeli2	bíli biste štedjeli2	bíli bi štedjeli2
Imperative		—	štedi	—	štedimo	štedite	—
Active past participle		štedio m / štedjela f / štedjelo n			štedjeli m / štedjele f / štedjela 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

• uštédjeti
• poštédjeti

Related terms

• štednja

References

• “štedjeti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024