zaostati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ ostati.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

zaòstati pf (Cyrillic spelling зао̀стати)

(intransitive) to fall behind, lag, drop back

Conjugation

Conjugation of *zaostati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		zaostati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		zaòstāvši
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
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 ćē¹ zaostaće
future	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	conditional I	zaostao bih²	zaostao bi²	zaostao bi²	zaostali bismo²	zaostali biste²	zaostali bi²
conditional	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