dremati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• drijémati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drěmati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drěːmati/
• Hyphenation: dre‧ma‧ti

Verb

drémati impf (Cyrillic spelling дре́мати)

1. (intransitive) to doze, slumber, take a nap

Conjugation

Conjugation of dremati

Infinitive: dremati		Present verbal adverb: drémajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: drémānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dremam	dremaš	drema	dremamo	dremate	dremaju
Future	Future I	dremat ću1 dremaću	dremat ćeš1 dremaćeš	dremat će1 dremaće	dremat ćemo1 dremaćemo	dremat ćete1 dremaćete	dremat će1 dremaće
	Future II	bȕdēm dremao2	bȕdēš dremao2	bȕdē dremao2	bȕdēmo dremali2	bȕdēte dremali2	bȕdū dremali2
Past	Perfect	dremao sam2	dremao si2	dremao je2	dremali smo2	dremali ste2	dremali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam dremao2	bȉo si dremao2	bȉo je dremao2	bíli smo dremali2	bíli ste dremali2	bíli su dremali2
	Imperfect	dremah	dremaše	dremaše	dremasmo	dremaste	dremahu
Conditional I		dremao bih2	dremao bi2	dremao bi2	dremali bismo2	dremali biste2	dremali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih dremao2	bȉo bi dremao2	bȉo bi dremao2	bíli bismo dremali2	bíli biste dremali2	bíli bi dremali2
Imperative		—	dremaj	—	dremajmo	dremajte	—
Active past participle		dremao m / dremala f / dremalo n			dremali m / dremale f / dremala 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

• odrémati
• pridrémati
• prodrémati
• razdrémati
• zadrémati

Related terms

• drȅmnuti pf

Descendants

• → Albanian: dremit