češati

See also: Cesati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *česati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *késtei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃěʃati/
• Hyphenation: če‧ša‧ti

Verb

čèšati impf (Cyrillic spelling чѐшати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to scratch
2. (transitive) to curry, dress (horse)
3. (transitive) to card, tease, comb (wool)

Conjugation

Conjugation of češati

Infinitive: češati		Present verbal adverb: čȅšūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: čèšānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		češem	češeš	češe	češemo	češete	češu
Future	Future I	češat ću1 češaću	češat ćeš1 češaćeš	češat će1 češaće	češat ćemo1 češaćemo	češat ćete1 češaćete	češat će1 češaće
	Future II	bȕdēm češao2	bȕdēš češao2	bȕdē češao2	bȕdēmo češali2	bȕdēte češali2	bȕdū češali2
Past	Perfect	češao sam2	češao si2	češao je2	češali smo2	češali ste2	češali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam češao2	bȉo si češao2	bȉo je češao2	bíli smo češali2	bíli ste češali2	bíli su češali2
	Imperfect	češah	češaše	češaše	češasmo	češaste	češahu
Conditional I		češao bih2	češao bi2	češao bi2	češali bismo2	češali biste2	češali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih češao2	bȉo bi češao2	bȉo bi češao2	bíli bismo češali2	bíli biste češali2	bíli bi češali2
Imperative		—	češaj	—	češajmo	češajte	—
Active past participle		češao m / češala f / češalo n			češali m / češale f / češala n
Passive past participle		češan m / češana f / češano n			češani m / češane f / češana 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

• očèšati
• počèšati