stjecati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stjêt͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: stje‧ca‧ti

Verb

stjȅcati impf (Cyrillic spelling стје̏цати)

  1. (transitive, Ijekavian) to acquire, get, gain, obtain
  2. (transitive, Ijekavian) to earn (obtain my means of one's work)

Conjugation

Conjugation of stjecati
infinitive stjecati
present verbal adverb stjȅčūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun stjȅcānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present stječem stječeš stječe stječemo stječete stječu
future future I stjecat ću1
stjecaću
stjecat ćeš1
stjecaćeš
stjecat će1
stjecaće
stjecat ćemo1
stjecaćemo
stjecat ćete1
stjecaćete
stjecat ćē1
stjecaće
future II bȕdēm stjecao2 bȕdēš stjecao2 bȕdē stjecao2 bȕdēmo stjecali2 bȕdēte stjecali2 bȕdū stjecali2
past perfect stjecao sam2 stjecao si2 stjecao je2 stjecali smo2 stjecali ste2 stjecali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam stjecao2 bȉo si stjecao2 bȉo je stjecao2 bíli smo stjecali2 bíli ste stjecali2 bíli su stjecali2
imperfect stjecah stjecaše stjecaše stjecasmo stjecaste stjecahu
conditional conditional I stjecao bih2 stjecao bi2 stjecao bi2 stjecali bismo2 stjecali biste2 stjecali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih stjecao2 bȉo bi stjecao2 bȉo bi stjecao2 bíli bismo stjecali2 bíli biste stjecali2 bíli bi stjecali2
imperative stječi stječimo stječite
active past participle stjecao m / stjecala f / stjecalo n stjecali m / stjecale f / stjecala n
passive past participle stjecan m / stjecana f / stjecano n stjecani m / stjecane f / stjecana 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

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