sretati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъrětati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /srêtati/
  • Hyphenation: sre‧ta‧ti

Verb

srȅtati impf (Cyrillic spelling сре̏тати)

  1. imperfective form of sresti

Conjugation

Conjugation of sretati
Infinitive: sretati Present verbal adverb: srȅćūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: srȅtānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present srećem srećeš sreće srećemo srećete sreću
Future Future I sretat ću1
sretaću 		sretat ćeš1
sretaćeš 		sretat će1
sretaće 		sretat ćemo1
sretaćemo 		sretat ćete1
sretaćete 		sretat će1
sretaće
Future II bȕdēm sretao2 bȕdēš sretao2 bȕdē sretao2 bȕdēmo sretali2 bȕdēte sretali2 bȕdū sretali2
Past Perfect sretao sam2 sretao si2 sretao je2 sretali smo2 sretali ste2 sretali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam sretao2 bȉo si sretao2 bȉo je sretao2 bíli smo sretali2 bíli ste sretali2 bíli su sretali2
Imperfect sretah sretaše sretaše sretasmo sretaste sretahu
Conditional I sretao bih2 sretao bi2 sretao bi2 sretali bismo2 sretali biste2 sretali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih sretao2 bȉo bi sretao2 bȉo bi sretao2 bíli bismo sretali2 bíli biste sretali2 bíli bi sretali2
Imperative — sreći — srećimo srećite —
Active past participle sretao m / sretala f / sretalo n sretali m / sretale f / sretala n
Passive past participle sretan m / sretana f / sretano n sretani m / sretane f / sretana 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.

Further reading

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