posustajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ sustajati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /posǔstajati/
Hyphenation: po‧su‧sta‧ja‧ti

Verb

posùstajati impf (Cyrillic spelling посу̀стајати)

(intransitive) to grow tired, become exhausted
(intransitive) to fall behind, lag

Conjugation

Conjugation of posustajati

Infinitive: posustajati		Present verbal adverb: posùstajajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: posùstajānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		posustajem	posustaješ	posustaje	posustajemo	posustajete	posustaju
Future	Future I	posustajat ću¹ posustajaću	posustajat ćeš¹ posustajaćeš	posustajat će¹ posustajaće	posustajat ćemo¹ posustajaćemo	posustajat ćete¹ posustajaćete	posustajat će¹ posustajaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm posustajao²	bȕdēš posustajao²	bȕdē posustajao²	bȕdēmo posustajali²	bȕdēte posustajali²	bȕdū posustajali²
Past	Perfect	posustajao sam²	posustajao si²	posustajao je²	posustajali smo²	posustajali ste²	posustajali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam posustajao²	bȉo si posustajao²	bȉo je posustajao²	bíli smo posustajali²	bíli ste posustajali²	bíli su posustajali²
	Imperfect	posustajah	posustajaše	posustajaše	posustajasmo	posustajaste	posustajahu
Conditional I		posustajao bih²	posustajao bi²	posustajao bi²	posustajali bismo²	posustajali biste²	posustajali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih posustajao²	bȉo bi posustajao²	bȉo bi posustajao²	bíli bismo posustajali²	bíli biste posustajali²	bíli bi posustajali²
Imperative		—	posustaj	—	posustajmo	posustajte	—
Active past participle		posustajao m / posustajala f / posustajalo n			posustajali m / posustajale f / posustajala 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

posùstati pf