setiti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

sjȅtiti (Ijekavian)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sětiti.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /sêtiti/
Hyphenation: se‧ti‧ti

Verb edit

sȅtiti pf (Cyrillic spelling се̏тити)

(reflexive, with genitive) to remember
Sećam se svega što sam ikad pročitao.
I remember everything that I've ever read.

Ako se dobro sećam...
If I remember correctly...
(reflexive) to figure out, think up, come up with
Setit ćemo se nečeg.
We will figure something out.
(transitive, informal, clipping of podsjetiti) to remind
Seti me da ti sutra objasnim.
Remind me to explain it tomorrow.

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of setiti

Infinitive: setiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: sȅtīvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		setim	setiš	seti	setimo	setite	sete
Future	Future I	setit ću¹ setiću	setit ćeš¹ setićeš	setit će¹ setiće	setit ćemo¹ setićemo	setit ćete¹ setićete	setit će¹ setiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm setio²	bȕdēš setio²	bȕdē setio²	bȕdēmo setili²	bȕdēte setili²	bȕdū setili²
Past	Perfect	setio sam²	setio si²	setio je²	setili smo²	setili ste²	setili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam setio²	bȉo si setio²	bȉo je setio²	bíli smo setili²	bíli ste setili²	bíli su setili²
	Aorist	setih	seti	seti	setismo	setiste	setiše
Conditional I		setio bih²	setio bi²	setio bi²	setili bismo²	setili biste²	setili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih setio²	bȉo bi setio²	bȉo bi setio²	bíli bismo setili²	bíli biste setili²	bíli bi setili²
Imperative		—	seti	—	setimo	setite	—
Active past participle		setio m / setila f / setilo n			setili m / setile f / setila 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 edit

Related terms edit

sȅćati impf