nemati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ne- +‎ ìmati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /něːmati/
• Hyphenation: ne‧ma‧ti

Verb

némati impf (Cyrillic spelling не́мати)

1. (transitive) not to have

   Nemam za ovo živaca danas, brate.

   I don't have the nerves for this today, dude.

   Pih, šta ćeš, nema se para.

   Eh, what are you gonna do, we've got no money.

2. (transitive) not to be present (in some place) or available (of something)

   Tražih jedno deset minuta pavlaku. Ovde je nemaju.

   I'd searched for the sour cream for maybe ten minutes. They don't have it here.

   Stigosmo, al' njih nema.

   We've arrived, but they aren't here.

Conjugation

Conjugation of nemati

Infinitive: nemati		Present verbal adverb: némajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: némānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		nȇmām	nemaš	nema	nemamo	nemate	nemaju
Future	Future I	nemat ću1 nemaću	nemat ćeš1 nemaćeš	nemat će1 nemaće	nemat ćemo1 nemaćemo	nemat ćete1 nemaćete	nemat će1 nemaće
	Future II	bȕdēm nemao2	bȕdēš nemao2	bȕdē nemao2	bȕdēmo nemali2	bȕdēte nemali2	bȕdū nemali2
Past	Perfect	nemao sam2	nemao si2	nemao je2	nemali smo2	nemali ste2	nemali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam nemao2	bȉo si nemao2	bȉo je nemao2	bíli smo nemali2	bíli ste nemali2	bíli su nemali2
	Imperfect	nemah	nemaše	nemaše	nemasmo	nemaste	nemahu
Conditional I		nemao bih2	nemao bi2	nemao bi2	nemali bismo2	nemali biste2	nemali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih nemao2	bȉo bi nemao2	bȉo bi nemao2	bíli bismo nemali2	bíli biste nemali2	bíli bi nemali2
Imperative		—	nemaj	—	nemajmo	nemajte	—
Active past participle		nemao m / nemala f / nemalo n			nemali m / nemale f / nemala 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.

Antonyms

• ìmati

References

• “nemati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025