срести

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъrěsti, *sъresti, cognate with Bulgarian срещам (sreštam), Russian встречать (vstrečatʹ). Compare сре̏ћа (“luck, fortune”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /srêsti/
• Hyphenation: срес‧ти

Verb

сре̏сти pf (Latin spelling srȅsti)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to encounter, meet

Conjugation

Conjugation of срести

Infinitive: срести		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: сре̑вши		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		сретнем	сретнеш	сретне	сретнемо	сретнете	сретну
Future	Future I	срест ću1 срешću	срест ćeš1 срешćeš	срест će1 срешće	срест ćemo1 срешćemo	срест ćete1 срешćete	срест će1 срешće
	Future II	bȕdēm срео2	bȕdēš срео2	bȕdē срео2	bȕdēmo срели2	bȕdēte срели2	bȕdū срели2
Past	Perfect	срео sam2	срео si2	срео je2	срели smo2	срели ste2	срели su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam срео2	bȉo si срео2	bȉo je срео2	bíli smo срели2	bíli ste срели2	bíli su срели2
	Aorist	сретох	срете	срете	сретосмо	сретосте	сретоше
Conditional I		срео bih2	срео bi2	срео bi2	срели bismo2	срели biste2	срели bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih срео2	bȉo bi срео2	bȉo bi срео2	bíli bismo срели2	bíli biste срели2	bíli bi срели2
Imperative		—	сретни	—	сретнимо	сретните	—
Active past participle		срео m / срела f / срело n			срели m / среле f / срела n
1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. 2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. 3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. 4   Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.   *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

• прѐсрести pf
• су̀срести pf
• су̀срет m

Related terms

• сре̏тати impf

Further reading

• “срести”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024