nemati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ne- +‎ ìmati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /něːmati/
  • Hyphenation: ne‧ma‧ti

Verb

némati impf (Cyrillic spelling не́мати)

  1. (transitive) not to have
    Nemam za ovo živaca danas, brate.
    I don't have the nerves for this today, dude.
    Pih, šta ćeš, nema se para.
    Eh, what are you gonna do, we've got no money.
  2. (transitive) not to be present (in some place) or available (of something)
    Tražih jedno deset minuta pavlaku. Ovde je nemaju.
    I'd searched for the sour cream for maybe ten minutes. They don't have it here.
    Stigosmo, al' njih nema.
    We've arrived, but they aren't here.

Conjugation

Conjugation of nemati
infinitive nemati
present verbal adverb némajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun némānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present nȇmām nemaš nema nemamo nemate nemaju
future future I nemat ću1
nemaću
nemat ćeš1
nemaćeš
nemat će1
nemaće
nemat ćemo1
nemaćemo
nemat ćete1
nemaćete
nemat ćē1
nemaće
future II bȕdēm nemao2 bȕdēš nemao2 bȕdē nemao2 bȕdēmo nemali2 bȕdēte nemali2 bȕdū nemali2
past perfect nemao sam2 nemao si2 nemao je2 nemali smo2 nemali ste2 nemali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam nemao2 bȉo si nemao2 bȉo je nemao2 bíli smo nemali2 bíli ste nemali2 bíli su nemali2
imperfect nemah nemaše nemaše nemasmo nemaste nemahu
conditional conditional I nemao bih2 nemao bi2 nemao bi2 nemali bismo2 nemali biste2 nemali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih nemao2 bȉo bi nemao2 bȉo bi nemao2 bíli bismo nemali2 bíli biste nemali2 bíli bi nemali2
imperative nemaj nemajmo nemajte
active past participle nemao m / nemala f / nemalo n nemali m / nemale f / nemala 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.

Antonyms

References

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