nestati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• nèstajati

Etymology

From ne- +‎ stȃti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

nèstati pf (Cyrillic spelling нѐстати)

1. (intransitive) to disappear, vanish

   A onda je vlak nestao u daljini. - And then the train disappeared into the distance.

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

   Zbog jake kiše i grmljavine nestalo je struje. - Due to heavy rain and thunder, the power went out.

Conjugation

Conjugation of nestati

infinitive		nestati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		nèstāvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		nestanem	nestaneš	nestane	nestanemo	nestanete	nestanu
future	future I	nestat ću1 nestaću	nestat ćeš1 nestaćeš	nestat će1 nestaće	nestat ćemo1 nestaćemo	nestat ćete1 nestaćete	nestat ćē1 nestaćē
	future II	bȕdēm nestao2	bȕdēš nestao2	bȕdē nestao2	bȕdēmo nestali2	bȕdēte nestali2	bȕdū nestali2
past	perfect	nestao sam2	nestao si2	nestao je2	nestali smo2	nestali ste2	nestali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam nestao2	bȉo si nestao2	bȉo je nestao2	bíli smo nestali2	bíli ste nestali2	bíli su nestali2
	aorist	nestah / nestadoh	nesta / nestade	nesta / nestade	nestasmo / nestadosmo	nestaste / nestadoste	nestaše / nestadoše
conditional	conditional I	nestao bih2	nestao bi2	nestao bi2	nestali bismo2	nestali biste2	nestali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih nestao2	bȉo bi nestao2	bȉo bi nestao2	bíli bismo nestali2	bíli biste nestali2	bíli bi nestali2
imperative		—	nestani	—	nestanimo	nestanite	—
active past participle		nestao m / nestala f / nestalo n			nestali m / nestale f / nestala 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

• nèstajati impf