sustajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From su- +‎ stajati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sǔstajati/
Hyphenation: su‧sta‧ja‧ti

Verb

sùstajati impf (Cyrillic spelling су̀стајати)

(intransitive) to grow tired, become exhausted

Conjugation

Conjugation of sustajati

Infinitive: sustajati		Present verbal adverb: sùstajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sùstajānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sustajem	sustaješ	sustaje	sustajemo	sustajete	sustaju
Future	Future I	sustajat ću¹ sustajaću	sustajat ćeš¹ sustajaćeš	sustajat će¹ sustajaće	sustajat ćemo¹ sustajaćemo	sustajat ćete¹ sustajaćete	sustajat će¹ sustajaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm sustajao²	bȕdēš sustajao²	bȕdē sustajao²	bȕdēmo sustajali²	bȕdēte sustajali²	bȕdū sustajali²
Past	Perfect	sustajao sam²	sustajao si²	sustajao je²	sustajali smo²	sustajali ste²	sustajali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam sustajao²	bȉo si sustajao²	bȉo je sustajao²	bíli smo sustajali²	bíli ste sustajali²	bíli su sustajali²
	Imperfect	sustajah	sustajaše	sustajaše	sustajasmo	sustajaste	sustajahu
Conditional I		sustajao bih²	sustajao bi²	sustajao bi²	sustajali bismo²	sustajali biste²	sustajali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih sustajao²	bȉo bi sustajao²	bȉo bi sustajao²	bíli bismo sustajali²	bíli biste sustajali²	bíli bi sustajali²
Imperative		—	sustaj	—	sustajmo	sustajte	—
Active past participle		sustajao m / sustajala f / sustajalo n			sustajali m / sustajale f / sustajala 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

sùstati pf