leteti

== Serbo-Croatian == === Alternative forms === lètjeti (Ijekavian) lèćeti (dialectal) lètiti (Ikavian, dialectal Ijekavian and Ekavian) === Etymology === From Proto-Slavic *letěti, from Proto-Indo-European *lek-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lěteti/ Hyphenation: le‧te‧ti === Verb === lèteti impf (Cyrillic spelling лѐтети) (Ekavian) (intransitive) to fly (of birds etc., or in an aircraft) ptica može let(j)eti ― a bird can fly visoko let(j)eti ― to fly high mrzim let(j)eti/da letim ― I hate flying mora biti predivno let(j)eti nebom ― it must be wonderful flying through the sky zašto se bojite let(j)eti/da letite? ― why are you afraid of flying? (intransitive) to pass quickly (especially of time) vr(ij)eme leti ― the time flies (intransitive) to rush, hurry letim s jednog kraja grada na drugi ― I'm rushing from one corner of the city to another (intransitive) to fly through something (as if thrown) kamenje je let(j)elo zrakom ― stones were being thrown in the air ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “leteti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026 “leteti”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика [Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање [Second Phototype Edition], volume 3, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 195 == Slovene == === Etymology === From Proto-Slavic *letěti. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lɛtèːti/ Hyphenation: le‧te‧ti === Verb === letẹ́ti impf to fly ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “leteti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026