postojati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

po- +‎ stajati, po- +‎ stati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǒːstojati/
Hyphenation: po‧sto‧ja‧ti

Verb

póstojati impf (Cyrillic spelling по́стојати)

(intransitive) to be, exist
Jeti postoji - The Yeti exists

Conjugation

Conjugation of postojati

Infinitive: postojati		Present verbal adverb: póstojēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: póstojānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		postojim	postojiš	postoji	postojimo	postojite	postoje
Future	Future I	postojat ću¹ postojaću	postojat ćeš¹ postojaćeš	postojat će¹ postojaće	postojat ćemo¹ postojaćemo	postojat ćete¹ postojaćete	postojat će¹ postojaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm postojao²	bȕdēš postojao²	bȕdē postojao²	bȕdēmo postojali²	bȕdēte postojali²	bȕdū postojali²
Past	Perfect	postojao sam²	postojao si²	postojao je²	postojali smo²	postojali ste²	postojali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam postojao²	bio si postojao²	bio je postojao²	bili smo postojali²	bili ste postojali²	bili su postojali²
	Imperfect	postojah	postojaše	postojaše	postojasmo	postojaste	postojahu
Conditional I		postojao bih²	postojao bi²	postojao bi²	postojali bismo²	postojali biste²	postojali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih postojao²	bio bi postojao²	bio bi postojao²	bili bismo postojali²	bili biste postojali²	bili bi postojali²
Imperative		—	postoji	—	postojimo	postojite	—
Active past participle		postojao m / postojala f / postojalo n			postojali m / postojale f / postojala 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 have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

pòstati pf