Aorist tense of the verb “biti” (to be)

This chapter presents you another “new” tense that the Croatian language features: the aorist.
It's important to know that only perfective verbs are able to build a aorist form.
(Maybe you'd like to revise the chapter on the aspect in this context.)

As this verb form is only used in written Croatian, we will leave it at presenting you the aorist form of the verb “biti” (to be) – as you will later need these to build the conditional.

bih – I was
bi – you were
bi – he was
bismo – we were
biste – you were
biše – they were

If you translate the Croatian aorist into English, we advice you to use the imperfect – as you certainly noticed above.

Croatian Grammar

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Present tense: biti (to be)

Present tense: htjeti

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