štrebati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of German streben +‎ -ati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃtrěːbati/
  • Hyphenation: štre‧ba‧ti

Verb

štrébati impf (Cyrillic spelling штре́бати, perfective naštrébati)

  1. (colloquial) to swot, to cram

Conjugation

Conjugation of štrebati
infinitive štrebati
present verbal adverb štrébajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun štrébānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present štrebam štrebaš štreba štrebamo štrebate štrebaju
future future I štrebat ću1
štrebaću
štrebat ćeš1
štrebaćeš
štrebat će1
štrebaće
štrebat ćemo1
štrebaćemo
štrebat ćete1
štrebaćete
štrebat ćē1
štrebaće
future II bȕdēm štrebao2 bȕdēš štrebao2 bȕdē štrebao2 bȕdēmo štrebali2 bȕdēte štrebali2 bȕdū štrebali2
past perfect štrebao sam2 štrebao si2 štrebao je2 štrebali smo2 štrebali ste2 štrebali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam štrebao2 bȉo si štrebao2 bȉo je štrebao2 bíli smo štrebali2 bíli ste štrebali2 bíli su štrebali2
imperfect štrebah štrebaše štrebaše štrebasmo štrebaste štrebahu
conditional conditional I štrebao bih2 štrebao bi2 štrebao bi2 štrebali bismo2 štrebali biste2 štrebali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih štrebao2 bȉo bi štrebao2 bȉo bi štrebao2 bíli bismo štrebali2 bíli biste štrebali2 bíli bi štrebali2
imperative štrebaj štrebajmo štrebajte
active past participle štrebao m / štrebala f / štrebalo n štrebali m / štrebale f / štrebala n
passive past participle štreban m / štrebana f / štrebano n štrebani m / štrebane f / štrebana 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.

Further reading

  • štrebati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026