bježati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bèžati (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běžàti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjěʒati/
• Hyphenation: bje‧ža‧ti

Verb

bjèžati impf (Cyrillic spelling бјѐжати)

1. (intransitive) to flee, run away

Conjugation

Conjugation of bježati

Infinitive: bježati		Present verbal adverb: bjèžēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bjèžānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bježim	bježiš	bježi	bježimo	bježite	bježe
Future	Future I	bježat ću1 bježaću	bježat ćeš1 bježaćeš	bježat će1 bježaće	bježat ćemo1 bježaćemo	bježat ćete1 bježaćete	bježat će1 bježaće
	Future II	bȕdēm bježao2	bȕdēš bježao2	bȕdē bježao2	bȕdēmo bježali2	bȕdēte bježali2	bȕdū bježali2
Past	Perfect	bježao sam2	bježao si2	bježao je2	bježali smo2	bježali ste2	bježali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam bježao2	bȉo si bježao2	bȉo je bježao2	bíli smo bježali2	bíli ste bježali2	bíli su bježali2
	Imperfect	bježah	bježaše	bježaše	bježasmo	bježaste	bježahu
Conditional I		bježao bih2	bježao bi2	bježao bi2	bježali bismo2	bježali biste2	bježali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih bježao2	bȉo bi bježao2	bȉo bi bježao2	bíli bismo bježali2	bíli biste bježali2	bíli bi bježali2
Imperative		—	bježi	—	bježimo	bježite	—
Active past participle		bježao m / bježala f / bježalo n			bježali m / bježale f / bježala 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

• nabjèžati
• razbjèžati

Related terms

• bijeg
• pobjeći pf