kreštati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krěːʃtati/
  • Hyphenation: kre‧šta‧ti

Verb

kréštati impf (Cyrillic spelling кре́штати)

  1. (intransitive) to squawk (make a squawking noise), screech, shriek

Conjugation

Conjugation of kreštati
Infinitive: kreštati Present verbal adverb: kréštēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: kréštānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present kreštim kreštiš krešti kreštimo kreštite krešte
Future Future I kreštat ću1
kreštaću 		kreštat ćeš1
kreštaćeš 		kreštat će1
kreštaće 		kreštat ćemo1
kreštaćemo 		kreštat ćete1
kreštaćete 		kreštat će1
kreštaće
Future II bȕdēm kreštao2 bȕdēš kreštao2 bȕdē kreštao2 bȕdēmo kreštali2 bȕdēte kreštali2 bȕdū kreštali2
Past Perfect kreštao sam2 kreštao si2 kreštao je2 kreštali smo2 kreštali ste2 kreštali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kreštao2 bȉo si kreštao2 bȉo je kreštao2 bíli smo kreštali2 bíli ste kreštali2 bíli su kreštali2
Imperfect kreštah kreštaše kreštaše kreštasmo kreštaste kreštahu
Conditional I kreštao bih2 kreštao bi2 kreštao bi2 kreštali bismo2 kreštali biste2 kreštali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kreštao2 bȉo bi kreštao2 bȉo bi kreštao2 bíli bismo kreštali2 bíli biste kreštali2 bíli bi kreštali2
Imperative — krešti — kreštimo kreštite —
Active past participle kreštao m / kreštala f / kreštalo n kreštali m / kreštale f / kreštala 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.

References

  • “kreštati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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