posustati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

po- +‎ sustati

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /posǔstati/
• Hyphenation: po‧su‧sta‧ti

Verb

posùstati pf (Cyrillic spelling посу̀стати)

1. (intransitive) to grow tired, become exhausted
2. (intransitive) to fall behind, lag

Conjugation

Conjugation of posustati

Infinitive: posustati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: posùstāvši		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		posustanem	posustaneš	posustane	posustanemo	posustanete	posustanu
Future	Future I	posustat ću1 posustaću	posustat ćeš1 posustaćeš	posustat će1 posustaće	posustat ćemo1 posustaćemo	posustat ćete1 posustaćete	posustat će1 posustaće
	Future II	bȕdēm posustao2	bȕdēš posustao2	bȕdē posustao2	bȕdēmo posustali2	bȕdēte posustali2	bȕdū posustali2
Past	Perfect	posustao sam2	posustao si2	posustao je2	posustali smo2	posustali ste2	posustali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam posustao2	bȉo si posustao2	bȉo je posustao2	bíli smo posustali2	bíli ste posustali2	bíli su posustali2
	Aorist	posustadoh	posustade	posustade	posustadosmo	posustadoste	posustadoše
Conditional I		posustao bih2	posustao bi2	posustao bi2	posustali bismo2	posustali biste2	posustali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih posustao2	bȉo bi posustao2	bȉo bi posustao2	bíli bismo posustali2	bíli biste posustali2	bíli bi posustali2
Imperative		—	posustani	—	posustanimo	posustanite	—
Active past participle		posustao m / posustala f / posustalo n			posustali m / posustale f / posustala 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

• posùstajati impf