čestitati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

čestítati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling чести́тати)

1. 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 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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024