sresti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъrěsti, *sъresti, cognate with Bulgarian срещам (sreštam), Russian встречать (vstrečatʹ), Slovenian srečati. Compare srȅća (“luck, fortune”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /srêsti/
Hyphenation: sres‧ti

Verb

srȅsti pf (Cyrillic spelling сре̏сти)

(transitive, reflexive) to encounter, meet
Synonym: sastati

Conjugation

Conjugation of sresti

Infinitive: sresti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: srȇvši		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		sretnem	sretneš	sretne	sretnemo	sretnete	sretnu
Future	Future I	srest ću¹ srešću	srest ćeš¹ srešćeš	srest će¹ srešće	srest ćemo¹ srešćemo	srest ćete¹ srešćete	srest će¹ srešće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm sreo²	bȕdēš sreo²	bȕdē sreo²	bȕdēmo sreli²	bȕdēte sreli²	bȕdū sreli²
Past	Perfect	sreo sam²	sreo si²	sreo je²	sreli smo²	sreli ste²	sreli su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam sreo²	bȉo si sreo²	bȉo je sreo²	bíli smo sreli²	bíli ste sreli²	bíli su sreli²
	Aorist	sretoh	srete	srete	sretosmo	sretoste	sretoše
Conditional I		sreo bih²	sreo bi²	sreo bi²	sreli bismo²	sreli biste²	sreli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih sreo²	bȉo bi sreo²	bȉo bi sreo²	bíli bismo sreli²	bíli biste sreli²	bíli bi sreli²
Imperative		—	sretni	—	sretnimo	sretnite	—
Active past participle		sreo m / srela f / srelo n			sreli m / srele f / srela 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

prèsresti pf
sùsresti pf

Related terms

srȅtati impf
susret