kresati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *krěsati, *kresati (compare Russian кресать (kresát’), Polish krzosać).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /krěsati/
Hyphenation: kre‧sa‧ti

Verb

krèsati impf (Cyrillic spelling крѐсати)

(transitive) to prune, trim, cut, clip

kresati grane ― to trim branches

kresati stablo/drvo ― to prune a tree
(transitive, slang) to have sex

kresao sam mu sestru dok je bio na ljetovanju/letovanju ― I was having sex with his sister while he was on vacation
(transitive) to reduce, cut, decrease

kresali smo budžet sve dok ga nismo uravnotežili ― we kept cutting the budget until we balanced it
(transitive, with dative) to speak openly and harshly

nemoj mi kresati te gluposti u brk! ― stop telling me telling that nonsense off to my face!

Conjugation

Conjugation of kresati

Infinitive: kresati		Present verbal adverb: krȅšūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: krèsānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		krešem	krešeš	kreše	krešemo	krešete	krešu
Future	Future I	kresat ću¹ kresaću	kresat ćeš¹ kresaćeš	kresat će¹ kresaće	kresat ćemo¹ kresaćemo	kresat ćete¹ kresaćete	kresat će¹ kresaće
Future	Future II	budem kresao²	budeš kresao²	bude kresao²	budemo kresali²	budete kresali²	budu kresali²
Past	Perfect	kresao sam²	kresao si²	kresao je²	kresali smo²	kresali ste²	kresali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam kresao²	bio si kresao²	bio je kresao²	bili smo kresali²	bili ste kresali²	bili su kresali²
	Imperfect	kresah	kresaše	kresaše	kresasmo	kresaste	kresahu
Conditional I		kresao bih²	kresao bi²	kresao bi²	kresali bismo²	kresali biste²	kresali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih kresao²	bio bi kresao²	bio bi kresao²	bili bismo kresali²	bili biste kresali²	bili bi kresali²
Imperative		—	kreši	—	krešimo	krešite	—
Active past participle		kresao m / kresala f / kresalo n			kresali m / kresale f / kresala n
Passive past participle		kresan m / kresana f / kresano n			kresani m / kresane f / kresana 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. * 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.

Derived terms

okrèsati
skrèsati
ukrèsati

Related terms

krȅsnuti pf

References

“kresati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 2, page 55

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