stizati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stîzati/
  • Hyphenation: sti‧za‧ti

Verb

stȉzati impf (Cyrillic spelling сти̏зати)

  1. (intransitive) to arrive, reach (to a destination or a goal)
  2. (transitive) to catch up, overtake (somebody or someone)
  3. (intransitive) to have time to finish or do something; to manage to do something (+infinitive)
    Kako zaboga stižeš sve to obaviti u jednom danu! — How on earth do you manage to complete all that work in a single day!

Conjugation

Conjugation of stizati
Infinitive: stizati Present verbal adverb: stȉžūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: stȉzānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present stižem stižeš stiže stižemo stižete stižu
Future Future I stizat ću1
stizaću 		stizat ćeš1
stizaćeš 		stizat će1
stizaće 		stizat ćemo1
stizaćemo 		stizat ćete1
stizaćete 		stizat će1
stizaće
Future II bȕdēm stizao2 bȕdēš stizao2 bȕdē stizao2 bȕdēmo stizali2 bȕdēte stizali2 bȕdū stizali2
Past Perfect stizao sam2 stizao si2 stizao je2 stizali smo2 stizali ste2 stizali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam stizao2 bȉo si stizao2 bȉo je stizao2 bíli smo stizali2 bíli ste stizali2 bíli su stizali2
Imperfect stizah stizaše stizaše stizasmo stizaste stizahu
Conditional I stizao bih2 stizao bi2 stizao bi2 stizali bismo2 stizali biste2 stizali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih stizao2 bȉo bi stizao2 bȉo bi stizao2 bíli bismo stizali2 bíli biste stizali2 bíli bi stizali2
Imperative — stiži — stižimo stižite —
Active past participle stizao m / stizala f / stizalo n stizali m / stizale f / stizala n
Passive past participle stizan m / stizana f / stizano n stizani m / stizane f / stizana 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.

Derived terms

Further reading

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