željkovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

željeti +‎ -kati +‎ -ovati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒêʎkoʋati/
  • Hyphenation: želj‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

žȅljkovati impf (Cyrillic spelling же̏љковати)

  1. (expressive) to yearn for, to long for (something)
  2. (expressive) to miss (someone)

Conjugation

Conjugation of željkovati
infinitive željkovati
present verbal adverb željkujūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun željkovānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present željkujem željkuješ željkuje željkujemo željkujete željkuju
future future I željkovat ću1
željkovaću
željkovat ćeš1
željkovaćeš
željkovat će1
željkovaće
željkovat ćemo1
željkovaćemo
željkovat ćete1
željkovaćete
željkovat ćē1
željkovaće
future II bȕdēm željkovao2 bȕdēš željkovao2 bȕdē željkovao2 bȕdēmo željkovali2 bȕdēte željkovali2 bȕdū željkovali2
past perfect željkovao sam2 željkovao si2 željkovao je2 željkovali smo2 željkovali ste2 željkovali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam željkovao2 bȉo si željkovao2 bȉo je željkovao2 bíli smo željkovali2 bíli ste željkovali2 bíli su željkovali2
imperfect željkovah željkovaše željkovaše željkovasmo željkovaste željkovahu
conditional conditional I željkovao bih2 željkovao bi2 željkovao bi2 željkovali bismo2 željkovali biste2 željkovali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih željkovao2 bȉo bi željkovao2 bȉo bi željkovao2 bíli bismo željkovali2 bíli biste željkovali2 bíli bi željkovali2
imperative željkuj željkujmo željkujte
active past participle željkovao m / željkovala f / željkovalo n željkovali m / željkovale f / željkovala 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.

Further reading

  • željkovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
  • Josip Jedvaj, editor (1976), “žȅljkovati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 23, Zagreb: JAZU, page 313