prestajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ stajati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /prěstajati/
Hyphenation: pre‧sta‧ja‧ti

Verb

prèstajati impf (Cyrillic spelling прѐстајати)

imperfective form of prèstati

Conjugation

Conjugation of *prestajati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		prestajati
present verbal adverb		prèstajajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		prèstajānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		prestajem	prestaješ	prestaje	prestajemo	prestajete	prestaju
future	future I	prestajat ću¹ prestajaću	prestajat ćeš¹ prestajaćeš	prestajat će¹ prestajaće	prestajat ćemo¹ prestajaćemo	prestajat ćete¹ prestajaćete	prestajat ćē¹ prestajaće
future	future II	bȕdēm prestajao²	bȕdēš prestajao²	bȕdē prestajao²	bȕdēmo prestajali²	bȕdēte prestajali²	bȕdū prestajali²
past	perfect	prestajao sam²	prestajao si²	prestajao je²	prestajali smo²	prestajali ste²	prestajali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam prestajao²	bȉo si prestajao²	bȉo je prestajao²	bíli smo prestajali²	bíli ste prestajali²	bíli su prestajali²
	imperfect	prestajah	prestajaše	prestajaše	prestajasmo	prestajaste	prestajahu
conditional	conditional I	prestajao bih²	prestajao bi²	prestajao bi²	prestajali bismo²	prestajali biste²	prestajali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih prestajao²	bȉo bi prestajao²	bȉo bi prestajao²	bíli bismo prestajali²	bíli biste prestajali²	bíli bi prestajali²
imperative		—	prestaj	—	prestajmo	prestajte	—
active past participle		prestajao m / prestajala f / prestajalo n			prestajali m / prestajale f / prestajala 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.

References

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