stareti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• stȁrjeti (Ijekavian)
• stȁriti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stâreti/
• Hyphenation: sta‧re‧ti

Verb

stȁreti impf (Cyrillic spelling ста̏рети)

1. (intransitive) to grow old, age

Conjugation

Conjugation of stareti

Infinitive: stareti		Present verbal adverb: stȁrēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: stȁrēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		starim	stariš	stari	starimo	starite	stare
Future	Future I	staret ću1 stareću	staret ćeš1 starećeš	staret će1 stareće	staret ćemo1 starećemo	staret ćete1 starećete	staret će1 stareće
	Future II	bȕdēm stareo2	bȕdēš stareo2	bȕdē stareo2	bȕdēmo stareli2	bȕdēte stareli2	bȕdū stareli2
Past	Perfect	stareo sam2	stareo si2	stareo je2	stareli smo2	stareli ste2	stareli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam stareo2	bȉo si stareo2	bȉo je stareo2	bíli smo stareli2	bíli ste stareli2	bíli su stareli2
	Imperfect	starah	staraše	staraše	starasmo	staraste	starahu
Conditional I		stareo bih2	stareo bi2	stareo bi2	stareli bismo2	stareli biste2	stareli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih stareo2	bȉo bi stareo2	bȉo bi stareo2	bíli bismo stareli2	bíli biste stareli2	bíli bi stareli2
Imperative		—	stari	—	starimo	starite	—
Active past participle		stareo m / starela f / starelo n			stareli m / starele f / starela 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.