postati

Italian

Verb

postati m

Plural of postato

Anagrams

optasti, potasti, stipato

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

po- +‎ stati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǒstati/
Hyphenation: po‧sta‧ti

Verb

pòstati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀стати)

(transitive) to become, turn, get

Kad odrastem, postat ću slavna. ― When I grow up, I'll become famous.
(intransitive) to develop, originate
Sva živa materija je postala od nežive. — All the animate matter has developed from the inanimate.

Conjugation

Conjugation of postati

Infinitive: postati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòstāvši		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		postanem	postaneš	postane	postanemo	postanete	postanu
Future	Future I	postat ću¹ postaću	postat ćeš¹ postaćeš	postat će¹ postaće	postat ćemo¹ postaćemo	postat ćete¹ postaćete	postat će¹ postaće
Future	Future II	budem postao²	budeš postao²	bude postao²	budemo postali²	budete postali²	budu postali²
Past	Perfect	postao sam²	postao si²	postao je²	postali smo²	postali ste²	postali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam postao²	bio si postao²	bio je postao²	bili smo postali²	bili ste postali²	bili su postali²
	Aorist	postah / postadoh	posta / postade	posta / postade	postasmo / postadosmo	postaste / postadoste	postaše / postadoše
Conditional I		postao bih²	postao bi²	postao bi²	postali bismo²	postali biste²	postali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih postao²	bio bi postao²	bio bi postao²	bili bismo postali²	bili biste postali²	bili bi postali²
Imperative		—	postani	—	postanimo	postanite	—
Active past participle		postao m / postala f / postalo n			postali m / postale f / postala 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.

Related terms

pòstajati impf

Slovene

Verb

postati

become (to begin to be)

This Slovene entry was created from the translations listed at become. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see postati in the Slovene Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) October 2008

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