čestitati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃestǐːtati/
Hyphenation: čes‧ti‧ta‧ti

Verb

čestítati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling чести́тати)

to congratulate
Čestitala sam im na pob(j)edi. (spoken by a female)
Čestitao sam im na pob(j)edi. (spoken by a male)
I congratulated them on the victory.

Conjugation

Conjugation of čestitati

Infinitive: čestitati		Present verbal adverb: čestítajūći		Past verbal adverb: čestítāvši		Verbal noun: čestítānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		čestitam	čestitaš	čestita	čestitamo	čestitate	čestitaju
Future	Future I	čestitat ću¹ čestitaću	čestitat ćeš¹ čestitaćeš	čestitat će¹ čestitaće	čestitat ćemo¹ čestitaćemo	čestitat ćete¹ čestitaćete	čestitat će¹ čestitaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm čestitao²	bȕdēš čestitao²	bȕdē čestitao²	bȕdēmo čestitali²	bȕdēte čestitali²	bȕdū čestitali²
Past	Perfect	čestitao sam²	čestitao si²	čestitao je²	čestitali smo²	čestitali ste²	čestitali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam čestitao²	bȉo si čestitao²	bȉo je čestitao²	bíli smo čestitali²	bíli ste čestitali²	bíli su čestitali²
	Aorist	čestitah	[Term?]	[Term?]	[Term?]	[Term?]	[Term?]
	Imperfect	čestitah	čestitaše	čestitaše	čestitasmo	čestitaste	čestitahu
Conditional I		čestitao bih²	čestitao bi²	čestitao bi²	čestitali bismo²	čestitali biste²	čestitali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih čestitao²	bȉo bi čestitao²	bȉo bi čestitao²	bíli bismo čestitali²	bíli biste čestitali²	bíli bi čestitali²
Imperative		—	čestitaj	—	čestitajmo	čestitajte	—
Active past participle		čestitao m / čestitala f / čestitalo n			čestitali m / čestitale f / čestitala n
Passive past participle		čestitan m / čestitana f / čestitano n			čestitani m / čestitane f / čestitana 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.

References

“čestitati” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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