postizati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ stizati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒstizati/
• Hyphenation: po‧sti‧za‧ti

Verb

pòstizati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀стизати)

1. imperfective form of postići

Conjugation

Conjugation of postizati

Infinitive: postizati		Present verbal adverb: pòstižūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pòstizānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		postižem	postižeš	postiže	postižemo	postižete	postižu
Future	Future I	postizat ću1 postizaću	postizat ćeš1 postizaćeš	postizat će1 postizaće	postizat ćemo1 postizaćemo	postizat ćete1 postizaćete	postizat će1 postizaće
	Future II	bȕdēm postizao2	bȕdēš postizao2	bȕdē postizao2	bȕdēmo postizali2	bȕdēte postizali2	bȕdū postizali2
Past	Perfect	postizao sam2	postizao si2	postizao je2	postizali smo2	postizali ste2	postizali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam postizao2	bȉo si postizao2	bȉo je postizao2	bíli smo postizali2	bíli ste postizali2	bíli su postizali2
	Imperfect	postizah	postizaše	postizaše	postizasmo	postizaste	postizahu
Conditional I		postizao bih2	postizao bi2	postizao bi2	postizali bismo2	postizali biste2	postizali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih postizao2	bȉo bi postizao2	bȉo bi postizao2	bíli bismo postizali2	bíli biste postizali2	bíli bi postizali2
Imperative		—	postiži	—	postižimo	postižite	—
Active past participle		postizao m / postizala f / postizalo n			postizali m / postizale f / postizala n
Passive past participle		postizan m / postizana f / postizano n			postizani m / postizane f / postizana 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.

Related terms

• pòstići / pòstignuti pf

Further reading

• “postizati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024