dostizati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From do- +‎ stizati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǒstizati/
• Hyphenation: do‧sti‧za‧ti

Verb

dòstizati impf (Cyrillic spelling до̀стизати)

1. imperfective form of dostignuti

Conjugation

Conjugation of dostizati

Infinitive: dostizati		Present verbal adverb: -ižūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dòstizānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dostižem	dostižeš	dostiže	dostižemo	dostižete	dostižu
Future	Future I	dostizat ću1 dostizaću	dostizat ćeš1 dostizaćeš	dostizat će1 dostizaće	dostizat ćemo1 dostizaćemo	dostizat ćete1 dostizaćete	dostizat će1 dostizaće
	Future II	bȕdēm dostizao2	bȕdēš dostizao2	bȕdē dostizao2	bȕdēmo dostizali2	bȕdēte dostizali2	bȕdū dostizali2
Past	Perfect	dostizao sam2	dostizao si2	dostizao je2	dostizali smo2	dostizali ste2	dostizali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam dostizao2	bȉo si dostizao2	bȉo je dostizao2	bíli smo dostizali2	bíli ste dostizali2	bíli su dostizali2
	Imperfect	dostizah	dostizaše	dostizaše	dostizasmo	dostizaste	dostizahu
Conditional I		dostizao bih2	dostizao bi2	dostizao bi2	dostizali bismo2	dostizali biste2	dostizali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih dostizao2	bȉo bi dostizao2	bȉo bi dostizao2	bíli bismo dostizali2	bíli biste dostizali2	bíli bi dostizali2
Imperative		—	dostiži	—	dostižimo	dostižite	—
Active past participle		dostizao m / dostizala f / dostizalo n			dostizali m / dostizale f / dostizala n
Passive past participle		dostizan m / dostizana f / dostizano n			dostizani m / dostizane f / dostizana 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.

Related terms

• dòstignuti pf

Further reading

• “dostizati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024