stezati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stěːzati/
  • Hyphenation: ste‧za‧ti

Verb

stézati impf (Cyrillic spelling сте́зати)

  1. (transitive) to tighten, constrict, constringe
  2. (reflexive) to contract, close (of wound, etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of stezati
infinitive stezati
present verbal adverb stéžūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun stézānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present stežem stežeš steže stežemo stežete stežu
future future I stezat ću1
stezaću
stezat ćeš1
stezaćeš
stezat će1
stezaće
stezat ćemo1
stezaćemo
stezat ćete1
stezaćete
stezat ćе̄1
stezaće
future II bȕdēm stezao2 bȕdēš stezao2 bȕdē stezao2 bȕdēmo stezali2 bȕdēte stezali2 bȕdū stezali2
past perfect stezao sam2 stezao si2 stezao je2 stezali smo2 stezali ste2 stezali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam stezao2 bȉo si stezao2 bȉo je stezao2 bíli smo stezali2 bíli ste stezali2 bíli su stezali2
imperfect stezah stezaše stezaše stezasmo stezaste stezahu
conditional conditional I stezao bih2 stezao bi2 stezao bi2 stezali bismo2 stezali biste2 stezali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih stezao2 bȉo bi stezao2 bȉo bi stezao2 bíli bismo stezali2 bíli biste stezali2 bíli bi stezali2
imperative steži stežimo stežite
active past participle stezao m / stezala f / stezalo n stezali m / stezale f / stezala n
passive past participle stezan m / stezana f / stezano n stezani m / stezane f / stezana 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.

References

  • stezati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025