žudeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• žúdjeti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlděti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒǔːdeti/
• Hyphenation: žu‧de‧ti

Verb

žúdeti impf (Cyrillic spelling жу́дети)

1. (ambitransitive) 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 (Eastern Serbo-Croatian). The rarest form of usage is with the direct object in accusative case.

Conjugation

Conjugation of žudeti

infinitive		žudeti
present verbal adverb		žúdēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		žúđēnje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		žudim	žudiš	žudi	žudimo	žudite	žude
future	future I	žudet ću1 žudeću	žudet ćeš1 žudećeš	žudet će1 žudeće	žudet ćemo1 žudećemo	žudet ćete1 žudećete	žudet ćē1 žudeće
	future II	bȕdēm žudeo2	bȕdēš žudeo2	bȕdē žudeo2	bȕdēmo žudeli2	bȕdēte žudeli2	bȕdū žudeli2
past	perfect	žudeo sam2	žudeo si2	žudeo je2	žudeli smo2	žudeli ste2	žudeli su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam žudeo2	bȉo si žudeo2	bȉo je žudeo2	bíli smo žudeli2	bíli ste žudeli2	bíli su žudeli2
	imperfect	žuđah	žuđaše	žuđaše	žuđasmo	žuđaste	žuđahu
conditional	conditional I	žudeo bih2	žudeo bi2	žudeo bi2	žudeli bismo2	žudeli biste2	žudeli bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih žudeo2	bȉo bi žudeo2	bȉo bi žudeo2	bíli bismo žudeli2	bíli biste žudeli2	bíli bi žudeli2
imperative		—	žudi	—	žudimo	žudite	—
active past participle		žudeo m / žudela f / žudelo n			žudeli m / žudele f / žudela 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

• zažúdeti

Related terms

• pȍžuda
• žúdnja