vedeti

See also: vedeți

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀯𑁂𑀤𑁂𑀢𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• वेदेति (Devanagari script)
• ৰেদেতি (Bengali script)
• වෙදෙති (Sinhalese script)
• ဝေဒေတိ or ဝေၻေတိ (Burmese script)
• เวเทติ (Thai script)
• ᩅᩮᨴᩮᨲᩥ (Tai Tham script)
• ເວເທຕິ (Lao script)
• វេទេតិ (Khmer script)
• 𑅇𑄬𑄘𑄬𑄖𑄨 (Chakma script)

Verb

vedeti (root vid, seventh conjugation)

1. to know
2. to experience

Conjugation

Conjugation of "vedeti"

	Singular	Plural
Present
1st	vedemi or vedayāmi	vedema or vedayāma
2nd	vedesi or vedayasi	vedetha or vedayatha
3rd	vedeti or vedayati	vedenti or vedayanti
Imperative
1st	vedemi or vedayāmi	vedema or vedayāma
2nd	vedehi or vedayāhi	vedetha or vedayatha
3rd	vedetu or vedayatu	vedentu or vedayantu
Optative
1st	vedeyyāmi or vedeyyaṃ	vedeyyāma
2nd	vedeyyāsi	vedeyyātha
3rd	vedeyya	vedeyyuṃ

• Present active participle: vedent or vedayant, which see for forms and usage
• Past participle: vedita, vedayita
• Gerundive: veditabba

Derived terms

• paṭivedeti

Adjective

vedeti

1. masculine/neuter locative singular of vedent, present participle of the verb above

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vedeti”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věděti, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”), perfect of *weyd- (“to see, to know”).

Verb

vedeti impf (Cyrillic spelling ведети)

1. (Kajkavian, regional) to know

   Synonym: znati

Usage notes

• Vedeti is used in Kajkavian dialects of Gorski kotar and only sporadically in smaller groups of dialects along the Croatian-Slovene border.

Further reading

• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1973–1974), “vjedjeti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 21, Zagreb: JAZU, page 51
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1973–1974), “vjedom”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[2] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 21, Zagreb: JAZU, page 52
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1973–1974), “vjedeńe”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[3] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 21, Zagreb: JAZU, page 53
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1971–1972), “vedeńe”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[4] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 20, Zagreb: JAZU, page 677
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1973–1974), “vjest”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[5] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 21, Zagreb: JAZU, page 109
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1971–1972), “vijest”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[6] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 20, Zagreb: JAZU, page 869

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *věděti, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋèːdɛti/

Verb

vẹ́deti impf

1. to know (be certain or sure about (something))

   Veš zakaj sem tukaj? ― Do you know why I'm here?

Inflection

Athematic
infinitive	vẹ́deti
1st singular	vẹ́m
infinitive	vẹ́deti			vẹ́det
supine	—
verbal noun	vẹ́denje
	participle			converb
present	vedọ̄č			—
past	—			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	vẹ́deł		vẹ̄dela		vẹ́delo
dual	vẹ́dela		vẹ́deli		vẹ́deli
plural	vẹ́deli		vẹ́dele		vẹ́dela
	present			imperative
1st singular	vẹ́m			—
2nd singular	vẹ́š			vẹ́di
3rd singular	vẹ́			—
1st dual	vẹ́va			vẹ́diva
2nd dual	vẹ́sta			vẹ́dita
3rd dual	vẹ́sta			—
1st plural	vẹ́mo			vẹ́dimo
2nd plural	vẹ́ste			vẹ́dite
3rd plural	véjo, vedọ́			—

Derived terms

• izvẹ́deti
• zvẹ́deti

Further reading

• “vedeti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
• Maks Pleteršnik, editor (1895), “vẹ́dẹti”, in Slovensko-nemški slovar (in Slovene), volume 2, Ljubljana: Knezoškofijstvo, page 753