presresti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ sresti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prěsresti/
• Hyphenation: pre‧sres‧ti

Verb

prèsresti pf (Cyrillic spelling прѐсрести)

1. (transitive) to intercept

Conjugation

Conjugation of presresti

Infinitive: presresti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: prèsrēvši		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		presretnem	presretneš	presretne	presretnemo	presretnete	presretnu
Future	Future I	presrest ću1 presrešću	presrest ćeš1 presrešćeš	presrest će1 presrešće	presrest ćemo1 presrešćemo	presrest ćete1 presrešćete	presrest će1 presrešće
	Future II	bȕdēm presreo2	bȕdēš presreo2	bȕdē presreo2	bȕdēmo presreli2	bȕdēte presreli2	bȕdū presreli2
Past	Perfect	presreo sam2	presreo si2	presreo je2	presreli smo2	presreli ste2	presreli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam presreo2	bȉo si presreo2	bȉo je presreo2	bíli smo presreli2	bíli ste presreli2	bíli su presreli2
	Aorist	presretoh	presrete	presrete	presretosmo	presretoste	presretoše
Conditional I		presreo bih2	presreo bi2	presreo bi2	presreli bismo2	presreli biste2	presreli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih presreo2	bȉo bi presreo2	bȉo bi presreo2	bíli bismo presreli2	bíli biste presreli2	bíli bi presreli2
Imperative		—	presretni	—	presretnimo	presretnite	—
Active past participle		presreo m / presrela f / presrelo n			presreli m / presrele f / presrela 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

• prèsretati impf

Further reading

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