sretati
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъrětati.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]srȅtati impf (Cyrillic spelling сре̏тати)
- imperfective form of sresti
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of sretati
| Infinitive: sretati | Present verbal adverb: srȅćūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: srȅtānje | ||||
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| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | srećem | srećeš | sreće | srećemo | srećete | sreću | |
| Future | Future I | sretat ću1 sretaću |
sretat ćeš1 sretaćeš |
sretat će1 sretaće |
sretat ćemo1 sretaćemo |
sretat ćete1 sretaćete |
sretat će1 sretaće |
| Future II | bȕdēm sretao2 | bȕdēš sretao2 | bȕdē sretao2 | bȕdēmo sretali2 | bȕdēte sretali2 | bȕdū sretali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | sretao sam2 | sretao si2 | sretao je2 | sretali smo2 | sretali ste2 | sretali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam sretao2 | bȉo si sretao2 | bȉo je sretao2 | bíli smo sretali2 | bíli ste sretali2 | bíli su sretali2 | |
| Imperfect | sretah | sretaše | sretaše | sretasmo | sretaste | sretahu | |
| Conditional I | sretao bih2 | sretao bi2 | sretao bi2 | sretali bismo2 | sretali biste2 | sretali bi2 | |
| Conditional II4 | bȉo bih sretao2 | bȉo bi sretao2 | bȉo bi sretao2 | bíli bismo sretali2 | bíli biste sretali2 | bíli bi sretali2 | |
| Imperative | — | sreći | — | srećimo | srećite | — | |
| Active past participle | sretao m / sretala f / sretalo n | sretali m / sretale f / sretala n | |||||
| Passive past participle | sretan m / sretana f / sretano n | sretani m / sretane f / sretana 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.
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Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sretati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024