sretati

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.

Related terms

• srȅsti pf
• sreća

Further reading

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