htjeti

== Serbo-Croatian == === Alternative forms === htȅti (Ekavian) === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xъtěti. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /xtjêti/ Hyphenation: htje‧ti === Verb === htjȅti impf (Cyrillic spelling хтје̏ти) (Ijekavian) (transitive) to wish, want, desire Hoćeš da ti pomognem? Samo reci kako. ― Do you want me to help you? Just say how. Hoću život svoj ― I Want my Life (song by Vlado Georgiev) (intransitive, auxiliary) Used to form the future tense; shall, will, going to Ja ću raditi/Ja ću da radim. ― I will work. (reflexive, impersonal, informal) to feel like, want Nije mi se htjelo. ― I didn't feel like it. (literally, “It didn't want itself to me.”) ==== Usage notes ==== In some dialects and colloquial speech, there is no aspiration so the initial h sound in all forms is never pronounced (e.g. hoću and htio become oću and tio respectively). In formal speech, aspiration is preferred. ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === Pero Budmani, editor (1887–1891), “htjȅti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 716 Pero Budmani, editor (1887–1891), “hòtjeti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 655