sezati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sęťi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěːzati/
• Hyphenation: se‧za‧ti

Verb

sézati impf (Cyrillic spelling се́зати)

1. (intransitive) to encroach, seize (+za (“for”))
2. (intransitive) to reach

Conjugation

Conjugation of sezati

Infinitive: sezati		Present verbal adverb: séžūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sézānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sežem	sežeš	seže	sežemo	sežete	sežu
Future	Future I	sezat ću1 sezaću	sezat ćeš1 sezaćeš	sezat će1 sezaće	sezat ćemo1 sezaćemo	sezat ćete1 sezaćete	sezat će1 sezaće
	Future II	bȕdēm sezao2	bȕdēš sezao2	bȕdē sezao2	bȕdēmo sezali2	bȕdēte sezali2	bȕdū sezali2
Past	Perfect	sezao sam2	sezao si2	sezao je2	sezali smo2	sezali ste2	sezali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sezao2	bȉo si sezao2	bȉo je sezao2	bíli smo sezali2	bíli ste sezali2	bíli su sezali2
	Imperfect	sezah	sezaše	sezaše	sezasmo	sezaste	sezahu
Conditional I		sezao bih2	sezao bi2	sezao bi2	sezali bismo2	sezali biste2	sezali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sezao2	bȉo bi sezao2	bȉo bi sezao2	bíli bismo sezali2	bíli biste sezali2	bíli bi sezali2
Imperative		—	seži	—	sežimo	sežite	—
Active past participle		sezao m / sezala f / sezalo n			sezali m / sezale f / sezala 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

• dosézati
• prisézati

Related terms

• ségnuti pf

Further reading

• “sezati” in Hrvatski jezični portal