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велети

велим

Russian

Verb

вели́м (velím)

  1. first-person plural present indicative imperfective of веле́ть (velétʹ)
  2. first-person plural future indicative perfective of веле́ть (velétʹ)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *velěti, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (to wish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋěliːm/
  • Hyphenation: ве‧лим

Verb

вѐлӣм impf, pf (Latin spelling vèlīm)

  1. (intransitive) to say
    како се то вели на енглеском? ― how do you say that in English?

Conjugation

Usage notes

This verb is defective and has no infinitive form. Hypothetically it would be *veljeti/*veleti, and some dictionaries mention it as such, but it has not been attested in Serbo-Croatian.

References

  • велим” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 1, page 349