preostajati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ ostajati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /preǒstajati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧o‧sta‧ja‧ti

Verb

preòstajati impf (Cyrillic spelling прео̀стајати)

  1. imperfective form of preòstati

Conjugation

Conjugation of preostajati
Infinitive: preostajati Present verbal adverb: preòstajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: preòstajānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present preostajem preostaješ preostaje preostajemo preostajete preostaju
Future Future I preostajat ću1
preostajaću 		preostajat ćeš1
preostajaćeš 		preostajat će1
preostajaće 		preostajat ćemo1
preostajaćemo 		preostajat ćete1
preostajaćete 		preostajat će1
preostajaće
Future II bȕdēm preostajao2 bȕdēš preostajao2 bȕdē preostajao2 bȕdēmo preostajali2 bȕdēte preostajali2 bȕdū preostajali2
Past Perfect preostajao sam2 preostajao si2 preostajao je2 preostajali smo2 preostajali ste2 preostajali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam preostajao2 bȉo si preostajao2 bȉo je preostajao2 bíli smo preostajali2 bíli ste preostajali2 bíli su preostajali2
Imperfect preostajah preostajaše preostajaše preostajasmo preostajaste preostajahu
Conditional I preostajao bih2 preostajao bi2 preostajao bi2 preostajali bismo2 preostajali biste2 preostajali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih preostajao2 bȉo bi preostajao2 bȉo bi preostajao2 bíli bismo preostajali2 bíli biste preostajali2 bíli bi preostajali2
Imperative — preostaj — preostajmo preostajte —
Active past participle preostajao m / preostajala f / preostajalo n preostajali m / preostajale f / preostajala 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

  • “preostajati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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