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)

1. (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 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

Further reading

• “sresti” in Hrvatski jezični portal