jesti → jedem

Present of Jesti

Level 2

Use jedem, jedeš, jede, jedemo, jedete and jedu for the present of jesti. Jedu is the third-person plural form.

How It Works

Jedem kruh. means I am eating bread or I eat bread. Context can indicate an activity happening now or a habit, as in Svaki dan jedem voće.

The verb can take an accusative food object, such as jedem juhu, or appear without an explicit object: Djeca jedu. An omitted food object does not make the sentence incomplete.

The imperative jedi and past participle jeo/jela belong to separate forms of the same verb. A perfective partner such as pojesti changes the aspectual viewpoint; its use is not a spelling variant of jesti.

Examples (4)

  1. Jedem juhu.

    I am eating soup.

    Jedem takes accusative juhu.

  2. Što jedeš?

    What are you eating?

    Jedeš addresses one familiar person.

  3. Djeca jedu.

    The children are eating.

    Jedu is third-person plural.

  4. Ne jedemo meso.

    We do not eat meat.

    Jedemo has plural first-person agreement, and ne is separate.

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jesti → jedemLevel 2Present of Jesti

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These frequent verbs use their own stems with the e-series present endings.

Words in This Pattern

jesti