presretati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prěsretati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧sre‧ta‧ti

Verb

prèsretati impf (Cyrillic spelling прѐсретати)

1. (transitive) to intercept

Conjugation

Conjugation of presretati

Infinitive: presretati		Present verbal adverb: prèsrećūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prèsretānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		presrećem	presrećeš	presreće	presrećemo	presrećete	presreću
Future	Future I	presretat ću1 presretaću	presretat ćeš1 presretaćeš	presretat će1 presretaće	presretat ćemo1 presretaćemo	presretat ćete1 presretaćete	presretat će1 presretaće
	Future II	bȕdēm presretao2	bȕdēš presretao2	bȕdē presretao2	bȕdēmo presretali2	bȕdēte presretali2	bȕdū presretali2
Past	Perfect	presretao sam2	presretao si2	presretao je2	presretali smo2	presretali ste2	presretali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam presretao2	bȉo si presretao2	bȉo je presretao2	bíli smo presretali2	bíli ste presretali2	bíli su presretali2
	Imperfect	presretah	presretaše	presretaše	presretasmo	presretaste	presretahu
Conditional I		presretao bih2	presretao bi2	presretao bi2	presretali bismo2	presretali biste2	presretali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih presretao2	bȉo bi presretao2	bȉo bi presretao2	bíli bismo presretali2	bíli biste presretali2	bíli bi presretali2
Imperative		—	presreći	—	presrećimo	presrećite	—
Active past participle		presretao m / presretala f / presretalo n			presretali m / presretale f / presretala n
Passive past participle		presretan m / presretana f / presretano n			presretani m / presretane f / presretana 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

• prèsresti pf

Further reading

• “presretati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024