sjetiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• sȅtiti (Ekavian)
• sititi (Ikavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sětiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjêtiti/
• Hyphenation: sje‧ti‧ti

Verb

sjȅtiti pf (Cyrillic spelling сје̏тити)

1. (reflexive, with genitive) to remember
2. (reflexive) to figure out, think up, come up with

   Sjetit ćemo se nečeg. ― We will figure something out.

3. (transitive, informal, clipping of podsjetiti) to remind

   Sjeti me da ti sutra objasnim. ― Remind me to explain it tomorrow.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sjetiti

infinitive		sjetiti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		sjȅtīvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		sjetim	sjetiš	sjeti	sjetimo	sjetite	sjete
future	future I	sjetit ću1 sjetiću	sjetit ćeš1 sjetićeš	sjetit će1 sjetiće	sjetit ćemo1 sjetićemo	sjetit ćete1 sjetićete	sjetit ćē1 sjetiće
	future II	bȕdēm sjetio2	bȕdēš sjetio2	bȕdē sjetio2	bȕdēmo sjetili2	bȕdēte sjetili2	bȕdū sjetili2
past	perfect	sjetio sam2	sjetio si2	sjetio je2	sjetili smo2	sjetili ste2	sjetili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam sjetio2	bȉo si sjetio2	bȉo je sjetio2	bíli smo sjetili2	bíli ste sjetili2	bíli su sjetili2
	aorist	sjetih	sjeti	sjeti	sjetismo	sjetiste	sjetiše
conditional	conditional I	sjetio bih2	sjetio bi2	sjetio bi2	sjetili bismo2	sjetili biste2	sjetili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih sjetio2	bȉo bi sjetio2	bȉo bi sjetio2	bíli bismo sjetili2	bíli biste sjetili2	bíli bi sjetili2
imperative		—	sjeti	—	sjetimo	sjetite	—
active past participle		sjetio m / sjetila f / sjetilo n			sjetili m / sjetile f / sjetila 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.

Derived terms

• òsjetiti
• pòdsjetiti
• prìsjetiti

Related terms

• sjȅćati impf

See also

• (remember): spomenuti pf
• (figure out): smisliti pf, skužiti pf, skontati pf

Further reading

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