dremati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

drijémati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drěmati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /drěːmati/
Hyphenation: dre‧ma‧ti

Verb

drémati impf (Cyrillic spelling дре́мати)

(intransitive) to doze, slumber, take a nap

Conjugation

Conjugation of dremati

Infinitive: dremati		Present verbal adverb: drémajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: drémānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dremam	dremaš	drema	dremamo	dremate	dremaju
Future	Future I	dremat ću¹ dremaću	dremat ćeš¹ dremaćeš	dremat će¹ dremaće	dremat ćemo¹ dremaćemo	dremat ćete¹ dremaćete	dremat će¹ dremaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm dremao²	bȕdēš dremao²	bȕdē dremao²	bȕdēmo dremali²	bȕdēte dremali²	bȕdū dremali²
Past	Perfect	dremao sam²	dremao si²	dremao je²	dremali smo²	dremali ste²	dremali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam dremao²	bȉo si dremao²	bȉo je dremao²	bíli smo dremali²	bíli ste dremali²	bíli su dremali²
	Imperfect	dremah	dremaše	dremaše	dremasmo	dremaste	dremahu
Conditional I		dremao bih²	dremao bi²	dremao bi²	dremali bismo²	dremali biste²	dremali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih dremao²	bȉo bi dremao²	bȉo bi dremao²	bíli bismo dremali²	bíli biste dremali²	bíli bi dremali²
Imperative		—	dremaj	—	dremajmo	dremajte	—
Active past participle		dremao m / dremala f / dremalo n			dremali m / dremale f / dremala 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

Related terms

drȅmnuti pf

Descendants

→ Albanian: dremit