zaostati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ ostati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaǒstati/
• Hyphenation: za‧o‧sta‧ti

Verb

zaòstati pf (Cyrillic spelling зао̀стати)

1. (intransitive) to fall behind, lag, drop back

Conjugation

Conjugation of zaostati

Infinitive: zaostati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: zaòstāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zaostanem	zaostaneš	zaostane	zaostanemo	zaostanete	zaostanu
Future	Future I	zaostat ću1 zaostaću	zaostat ćeš1 zaostaćeš	zaostat će1 zaostaće	zaostat ćemo1 zaostaćemo	zaostat ćete1 zaostaćete	zaostat će1 zaostaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zaostao2	bȕdēš zaostao2	bȕdē zaostao2	bȕdēmo zaostali2	bȕdēte zaostali2	bȕdū zaostali2
Past	Perfect	zaostao sam2	zaostao si2	zaostao je2	zaostali smo2	zaostali ste2	zaostali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zaostao2	bȉo si zaostao2	bȉo je zaostao2	bíli smo zaostali2	bíli ste zaostali2	bíli su zaostali2
	Aorist	zaostadoh	zaostade	zaostade	zaostadosmo	zaostadoste	zaostadoše
Conditional I		zaostao bih2	zaostao bi2	zaostao bi2	zaostali bismo2	zaostali biste2	zaostali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zaostao2	bȉo bi zaostao2	bȉo bi zaostao2	bíli bismo zaostali2	bíli biste zaostali2	bíli bi zaostali2
Imperative		—	zaostani	—	zaostanimo	zaostanite	—
Active past participle		zaostao m / zaostala f / zaostalo n			zaostali m / zaostale f / zaostala 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

• zaòstajati impf