biti
Pronunciation: /bîti/
“biti” is a Serbo-Croatian word. Its 10 meanings in English:
verb
- to be, to exist
- Used to connect a noun to an adjective or passive past participle that describes it (equivalent to all English senses and functions as a copula; subject having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified.)
- Used as an auxiliary verb in the present to form near future tense; similar to English going to.
- Used as an auxiliary verb to form compound verb tenses (perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional) together with the active past participle.
- Used to form the passive voice together with the passive past participle of the main verb.
- Used to form a question, usually a polar one.
- Used to indicate a general condition, such as weather, worth or value.
- to equal, to total, to add up to (indicates the equivalence of values)
- Used to express a premonition; there will be, there is going to be, to be coming
- to beat, hit, strike
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
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