pomesti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ mesti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒmesti/
• Hyphenation: po‧mes‧ti

Verb

pòmesti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀мести)

1. (transitive) to sweep (clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush)

   Pomeo sam sobu metlom. ― I swept my room with a broom.

2. (transitive) to disperse, dispel, sweep away (of wind)

   pomesti lišće ― to sweep away leaves

3. (transitive) to crush (completely defeat somebody)

   pomesti neprijatelje ― to crush enemies

Conjugation

Conjugation of pomesti

infinitive		pomesti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		pòmēvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		pometem	pometeš	pomete	pometemo	pometete	pometu
future	future I	pomest ću1 pomešću	pomest ćeš1 pomešćeš	pomest će1 pomešće	pomest ćemo1 pomešćemo	pomest ćete1 pomešćete	pomest ćē1 pomešće
	future II	bȕdēm pomeo2	bȕdēš pomeo2	bȕdē pomeo2	bȕdēmo pomeli2	bȕdēte pomeli2	bȕdū pomeli2
past	perfect	pomeo sam2	pomeo si2	pomeo je2	pomeli smo2	pomeli ste2	pomeli su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam pomeo2	bȉo si pomeo2	bȉo je pomeo2	bíli smo pomeli2	bíli ste pomeli2	bíli su pomeli2
	aorist	pometoh	pomete	pomete	pometosmo	pometoste	pometoše
conditional	conditional I	pomeo bih2	pomeo bi2	pomeo bi2	pomeli bismo2	pomeli biste2	pomeli bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih pomeo2	bȉo bi pomeo2	bȉo bi pomeo2	bíli bismo pomeli2	bíli biste pomeli2	bíli bi pomeli2
imperative		—	pometi	—	pometimo	pometite	—
active past participle		pomeo m / pomela f / pomelo n			pomeli m / pomele f / pomela n
passive past participle		pometen m / pometena f / pometeno n			pometeni m / pometene f / pometena 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.

Further reading

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