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”).

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 telling that nonsense off to my face!

Conjugation

Conjugation of kresati

Infinitive: kresati		Present verbal adverb: krȅšūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: krèsānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
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 će1 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 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

• okrèsati
• skrèsati
• ukrèsati

Related terms

• krȅsnuti pf

References

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