spremati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sprěːmati/
  • Hyphenation: spre‧ma‧ti

Verb

sprémati impf (Cyrillic spelling спре́мати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to prepare
    Ti se spremaš na dalek put.You are preparing for a long trip.
  2. (ambitransitive, Croatia) to save (to write a file to a disk)
    Synonyms: snimati, sačuvati, pohraniti, memorirati, memorisati
  3. (ambitransitive) to store

Conjugation

Conjugation of spremati
infinitive spremati
present verbal adverb sprémajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun sprémānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present spremam spremaš sprema spremamo spremate spremaju
future future I spremat ću1
spremaću
spremat ćeš1
spremaćeš
spremat će1
spremaće
spremat ćemo1
spremaćemo
spremat ćete1
spremaćete
spremat ćē1
spremaće
future II bȕdēm spremao2 bȕdēš spremao2 bȕdē spremao2 bȕdēmo spremali2 bȕdēte spremali2 bȕdū spremali2
past perfect spremao sam2 spremao si2 spremao je2 spremali smo2 spremali ste2 spremali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam spremao2 bȉo si spremao2 bȉo je spremao2 bíli smo spremali2 bíli ste spremali2 bíli su spremali2
imperfect spremah spremaše spremaše spremasmo spremaste spremahu
conditional conditional I spremao bih2 spremao bi2 spremao bi2 spremali bismo2 spremali biste2 spremali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih spremao2 bȉo bi spremao2 bȉo bi spremao2 bíli bismo spremali2 bíli biste spremali2 bíli bi spremali2
imperative spremaj spremajmo spremajte
active past participle spremao m / spremala f / spremalo n spremali m / spremale f / spremala n
passive past participle spreman m / spremana f / spremano n spremani m / spremane f / spremana 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

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