voleti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): vòljeti

Etymology

See vȍlja (“will”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋǒleti/
• Hyphenation: vo‧le‧ti

Verb

vòleti impf (Cyrillic spelling во̀лети)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to love

   Volim te. — I love you.

2. (transitive) to like

   Volim miris napalma ujutro. — I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Conjugation

Conjugation of voleti

Infinitive: voleti		Present verbal adverb: vȍlēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: vȍlēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		volim	voliš	voli	volimo	volite	vole
Future	Future I	volet ću1 voleću	volet ćeš1 volećeš	volet će1 voleće	volet ćemo1 volećemo	volet ćete1 volećete	volet će1 voleće
	Future II	bȕdēm voleo2	bȕdēš voleo2	bȕdē voleo2	bȕdēmo voleli2	bȕdēte voleli2	bȕdū voleli2
Past	Perfect	voleo sam2	voleo si2	voleo je2	voleli smo2	voleli ste2	voleli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam voleo2	bȉo si voleo2	bȉo je voleo2	bíli smo voleli2	bíli ste voleli2	bíli su voleli2
	Aorist	voleh	vole	vole	volesmo	voleste	voleše
	Imperfect	voljah	voljaše	voljaše	voljasmo	voljaste	voljahu
Conditional I		voleo bih2	voleo bi2	voleo bi2	voleli bismo2	voleli biste2	voleli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih voleo2	bȉo bi voleo2	bȉo bi voleo2	bíli bismo voleli2	bíli biste voleli2	bíli bi voleli2
Imperative		—	voli	—	volimo	volite	—
Active past participle		voleo m / volela f / volelo n			voleli m / volele f / volela n
Passive past participle		voljen m / voljena f / voljeno n			voljeni m / voljene f / voljena 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

• blagoizvòleti
• izvòleti

• privòleti
• zavòleti