voljeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• vòleti (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *volěti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋǒʎeti/
• Hyphenation: vo‧lje‧ti

Verb

vòljeti impf (Cyrillic spelling во̀љети)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to love

   Volim te. ― I love you.

2. (transitive) to like

   Volim miris napalma ujutro. ― I like the smell of napalm in the morning.

Conjugation

Conjugation of voljeti

infinitive		voljeti
present verbal adverb		vȍlēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		vȍljēnje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		volim	voliš	voli	volimo	volite	vole
future	future I	voljet ću1 voljeću	voljet ćeš1 voljećeš	voljet će1 voljeće	voljet ćemo1 voljećemo	voljet ćete1 voljećete	voljet ćē1 voljeće
	future II	bȕdēm volio2	bȕdēš volio2	bȕdē volio2	bȕdēmo voljeli2	bȕdēte voljeli2	bȕdū voljeli2
past	perfect	volio sam2	volio si2	volio je2	voljeli smo2	voljeli ste2	voljeli su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam volio2	bȉo si volio2	bȉo je volio2	bíli smo voljeli2	bíli ste voljeli2	bíli su voljeli2
	aorist	voljeh	volje	volje	voljesmo	voljeste	volješe
	imperfect	voljah	voljaše	voljaše	voljasmo	voljaste	voljahu
conditional	conditional I	volio bih2	volio bi2	volio bi2	voljeli bismo2	voljeli biste2	voljeli bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih volio2	bȉo bi volio2	bȉo bi volio2	bíli bismo voljeli2	bíli biste voljeli2	bíli bi voljeli2
imperative		—	voli	—	volimo	volite	—
active past participle		volio m / voljela f / voljelo n			voljeli m / voljele f / voljela 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

• blagoizvòljeti
• izvòljeti
• privòljeti
• zavòljeti