žudjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• žúdeti (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlděti (“to desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ- (“to wish for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒǔːdjeti/
• Hyphenation: žu‧dje‧ti

Verb

žúdjeti impf (Cyrillic spelling жу́дјети)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to long, desire, yearn, crave for

Usage notes

The verb is usually used with the preposition za (“for”), followed by an object in instrumental case. When the object is an action, it is in represented as an infinitive (Western Serbo-Croatian) or a da + present tense formation (used mostly in Eastern Serbo-Croatian). The rarest form of usage is with the direct object in accusative case.

Conjugation

Conjugation of žudjeti

Infinitive: žudjeti		Present verbal adverb: žúdēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: žúđēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		žudim	žudiš	žudi	žudimo	žudite	žude
Future	Future I	žudjet ću1 žudjeću	žudjet ćeš1 žudjećeš	žudjet će1 žudjeće	žudjet ćemo1 žudjećemo	žudjet ćete1 žudjećete	žudjet će1 žudjeće
	Future II	bȕdēm žudio2	bȕdēš žudio2	bȕdē žudio2	bȕdēmo žudjeli2	bȕdēte žudjeli2	bȕdū žudjeli2
Past	Perfect	žudio sam2	žudio si2	žudio je2	žudjeli smo2	žudjeli ste2	žudjeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam žudio2	bȉo si žudio2	bȉo je žudio2	bíli smo žudjeli2	bíli ste žudjeli2	bíli su žudjeli2
	Imperfect	žuđah	žuđaše	žuđaše	žuđasmo	žuđaste	žuđahu
Conditional I		žudio bih2	žudio bi2	žudio bi2	žudjeli bismo2	žudjeli biste2	žudjeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih žudio2	bȉo bi žudio2	bȉo bi žudio2	bíli bismo žudjeli2	bíli biste žudjeli2	bíli bi žudjeli2
Imperative		—	žudi	—	žudimo	žudite	—
Active past participle		žudio m / žudjela f / žudjelo n			žudjeli m / žudjele f / žudjela n
Passive past participle		žuđen m / žuđena f / žuđeno n			žuđeni m / žuđene f / žuđena 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

• zažúdjeti

Related terms

• pȍžuda
• žúdnja