blefirati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• blȅfati

Etymology

From blȅf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blefǐːrati/
• Hyphenation: ble‧fi‧ra‧ti

Verb

blefírati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling блефи́рати)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) to bluff

Conjugation

Conjugation of blefirati

Infinitive: blefirati		Present verbal adverb: blefírajūći		Past verbal adverb: blefírāvši		Verbal noun: blefírānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		blefiram	blefiraš	blefira	blefiramo	blefirate	blefiraju
Future	Future I	blefirat ću1 blefiraću	blefirat ćeš1 blefiraćeš	blefirat će1 blefiraće	blefirat ćemo1 blefiraćemo	blefirat ćete1 blefiraćete	blefirat će1 blefiraće
	Future II	bȕdēm blefirao2	bȕdēš blefirao2	bȕdē blefirao2	bȕdēmo blefirali2	bȕdēte blefirali2	bȕdū blefirali2
Past	Perfect	blefirao sam2	blefirao si2	blefirao je2	blefirali smo2	blefirali ste2	blefirali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam blefirao2	bȉo si blefirao2	bȉo je blefirao2	bíli smo blefirali2	bíli ste blefirali2	bíli su blefirali2
	Aorist	blefirah	blefira	blefira	blefirasmo	blefiraste	blefiraše
	Imperfect	blefirah	blefiraše	blefiraše	blefirasmo	blefiraste	blefirahu
Conditional I		blefirao bih2	blefirao bi2	blefirao bi2	blefirali bismo2	blefirali biste2	blefirali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih blefirao2	bȉo bi blefirao2	bȉo bi blefirao2	bíli bismo blefirali2	bíli biste blefirali2	bíli bi blefirali2
Imperative		—	blefiraj	—	blefirajmo	blefirajte	—
Active past participle		blefirao m / blefirala f / blefiralo n			blefirali m / blefirale f / blefirala 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

• “blefirati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024