starati

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Italian

Participle

starati m pl

  1. masculine plural of starato

Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stârati/
  • Hyphenation: sta‧ra‧ti

Verb

stȁrati impf (Cyrillic spelling ста̏рати)

  1. (reflexive) to take care of, to look after

Conjugation

Conjugation of starati
Infinitive: starati Present verbal adverb: stȁrajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: stȁrānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present staram staraš stara staramo starate staraju
Future Future I starat ću1
staraću 		starat ćeš1
staraćeš 		starat će1
staraće 		starat ćemo1
staraćemo 		starat ćete1
staraćete 		starat će1
staraće
Future II bȕdēm starao2 bȕdēš starao2 bȕdē starao2 bȕdēmo starali2 bȕdēte starali2 bȕdū starali2
Past Perfect starao sam2 starao si2 starao je2 starali smo2 starali ste2 starali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam starao2 bȉo si starao2 bȉo je starao2 bíli smo starali2 bíli ste starali2 bíli su starali2
Imperfect starah staraše staraše starasmo staraste starahu
Conditional I starao bih2 starao bi2 starao bi2 starali bismo2 starali biste2 starali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih starao2 bȉo bi starao2 bȉo bi starao2 bíli bismo starali2 bíli biste starali2 bíli bi starali2
Imperative — staraj — starajmo starajte —
Active past participle starao m / starala f / staralo n starali m / starale f / starala 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

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