prestajati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ stajati.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

prèstajati impf (Cyrillic spelling прѐстајати)

  1. imperfective form of prèstati

Conjugation

Conjugation of prestajati
Infinitive: prestajati Present verbal adverb: prèstajajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: prèstajānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present prestajem prestaješ prestaje prestajemo prestajete prestaju
Future Future I prestajat ću1
prestajaću 		prestajat ćeš1
prestajaćeš 		prestajat će1
prestajaće 		prestajat ćemo1
prestajaćemo 		prestajat ćete1
prestajaćete 		prestajat će1
prestajaće
Future II bȕdēm prestajao2 bȕdēš prestajao2 bȕdē prestajao2 bȕdēmo prestajali2 bȕdēte prestajali2 bȕdū prestajali2
Past Perfect prestajao sam2 prestajao si2 prestajao je2 prestajali smo2 prestajali ste2 prestajali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam prestajao2 bȉo si prestajao2 bȉo je prestajao2 bíli smo prestajali2 bíli ste prestajali2 bíli su prestajali2
Imperfect prestajah prestajaše prestajaše prestajasmo prestajaste prestajahu
Conditional I prestajao bih2 prestajao bi2 prestajao bi2 prestajali bismo2 prestajali biste2 prestajali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih prestajao2 bȉo bi prestajao2 bȉo bi prestajao2 bíli bismo prestajali2 bíli biste prestajali2 bíli bi prestajali2
Imperative — prestaj — prestajmo prestajte —
Active past participle prestajao m / prestajala f / prestajalo n prestajali m / prestajale f / prestajala 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

  • “prestajati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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