blažiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bolžiti. From blȃg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blǎːʒiti/
  • Hyphenation: bla‧ži‧ti

Verb

blážiti impf (Cyrillic spelling бла́жити)

  1. (transitive) to mitigate, lessen, alleviate (severity, intensity, taste etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of blažiti
infinitive blažiti
present verbal adverb blážēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun blážēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present blažim blažiš blaži blažimo blažite blaže
future future I blažit ću1
blažiću
blažit ćeš1
blažićeš
blažit će1
blažiće
blažit ćemo1
blažićemo
blažit ćete1
blažićete
blažit ćē1
blažiće
future II bȕdēm blažio2 bȕdēš blažio2 bȕdē blažio2 bȕdēmo blažili2 bȕdēte blažili2 bȕdū blažili2
past perfect blažio sam2 blažio si2 blažio je2 blažili smo2 blažili ste2 blažili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam blažio2 bȉo si blažio2 bȉo je blažio2 bíli smo blažili2 bíli ste blažili2 bíli su blažili2
imperfect blažah blažaše blažaše blažasmo blažaste blažahu
conditional conditional I blažio bih2 blažio bi2 blažio bi2 blažili bismo2 blažili biste2 blažili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih blažio2 bȉo bi blažio2 bȉo bi blažio2 bíli bismo blažili2 bíli biste blažili2 bíli bi blažili2
imperative blaži blažimo blažite
active past participle blažio m / blažila f / blažilo n blažili m / blažile f / blažila n
passive past participle blažen m / blažena f / blaženo n blaženi m / blažene f / blažena 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

References

  • blažiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025