ići → idem

Present of Ići

Level 2

The present of ići is idem, ideš, ide, idemo, idete and idu. It commonly describes going or moving toward a destination.

How It Works

Use idem for I go, ideš for informal singular you go and ide for a singular third-person subject. Plural forms are idemo, idete, idu.

Idem u školu. can describe going to school now or, in a suitable context, attending school regularly. A time phrase may instead make a planned future reading clear.

Ići does not automatically specify walking in every everyday use. To make that explicit, use an appropriate walking expression. Its other tense forms are also irregular: the past participle išao/išla is introduced separately.

Examples (4)

  1. Idem u školu.

    I am going to school.

    Idem is first-person singular.

  2. Idemo na posao.

    We are going to work.

    Idemo is first-person plural.

  3. Oni idu kući.

    They are going home.

    Idu is third-person plural.

  4. Ideš li s nama?

    Are you coming with us?

    The finite ideš precedes li.

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ići → idemLevel 2Present of Ići

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Ići has its own present stem but retains the usual person and number categories.

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