ponestati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ nestati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poněstati/
• Hyphenation: po‧ne‧sta‧ti

Verb

ponèstati pf (Cyrillic spelling понѐстати)

1. (intransitive) to run out of, become exhausted (+ genitive)

   Čini se da im je ponestalo argumenata. ― It seems that they've ran out of arguments.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ponestati

Infinitive: ponestati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: ponèstāvši		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		ponestanem	ponestaneš	ponestane	ponestanemo	ponestanete	ponestanu
Future	Future I	ponestat ću1 ponestaću	ponestat ćeš1 ponestaćeš	ponestat će1 ponestaće	ponestat ćemo1 ponestaćemo	ponestat ćete1 ponestaćete	ponestat će1 ponestaće
	Future II	bȕdēm ponestao2	bȕdēš ponestao2	bȕdē ponestao2	bȕdēmo ponestali2	bȕdēte ponestali2	bȕdū ponestali2
Past	Perfect	ponestao sam2	ponestao si2	ponestao je2	ponestali smo2	ponestali ste2	ponestali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ponestao2	bȉo si ponestao2	bȉo je ponestao2	bíli smo ponestali2	bíli ste ponestali2	bíli su ponestali2
	Aorist	ponestadoh	ponestade	ponestade	ponestadosmo	ponestadoste	ponestadoše
Conditional I		ponestao bih2	ponestao bi2	ponestao bi2	ponestali bismo2	ponestali biste2	ponestali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ponestao2	bȉo bi ponestao2	bȉo bi ponestao2	bíli bismo ponestali2	bíli biste ponestali2	bíli bi ponestali2
Imperative		—	ponestani	—	ponestanimo	ponestanite	—
Active past participle		ponestao m / ponestala f / ponestalo n			ponestali m / ponestale f / ponestala 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

• ponèstajati impf