kresati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krěsati, *kresati (compare Russian креса́ть (kresátʹ), Polish krzosać), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave”), related to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “thread”).[1]

Pronunciation

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

Verb

krèsati impf (Cyrillic spelling крѐсати)

  1. (transitive) to prune, trim, cut, clip
    kresati grane ― to trim branches
    kresati stablo/drvo ― to prune a tree
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive) to reduce, cut, decrease
    Kresali smo budžet sve dok ga nismo uravnotežili. ― We kept cutting the budget until we balanced it.
  4. (transitive, with dative) to speak openly and harshly
    Nemoj mi kresati te gluposti u brk! ― Stop telling me that nonsense to my face!

Conjugation

Conjugation of kresati
infinitive kresati
present verbal adverb krȅšūći
past verbal adverb —
verbal noun krèsānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
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 ćē1
kresaće
future II bȕdēm kresao2 bȕdēš kresao2 bȕdē kresao2 bȕdēmo kresali2 bȕdēte kresali2 bȕdū kresali2
past perfect kresao sam2 kresao si2 kresao je2 kresali smo2 kresali ste2 kresali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam kresao2 bȉo si kresao2 bȉo je kresao2 bíli smo kresali2 bíli ste kresali2 bíli su kresali2
imperfect kresah kresaše kresaše kresasmo kresaste kresahu
conditional conditional I kresao bih2 kresao bi2 kresao bi2 kresali bismo2 kresali biste2 kresali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih kresao2 bȉo bi kresao2 bȉo bi kresao2 bíli bismo kresali2 bíli biste kresali2 bíli 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.
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.

Derived terms

References

  • “kresati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • “kresati”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 2, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 55
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 775
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