starati

Italian

Participle

starati m pl

1. masculine plural of starato

Anagrams

• artista, ristata, stirata, striata, tarasti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *starati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stârati/
• Hyphenation: sta‧ra‧ti

Verb

stȁrati impf (Cyrillic spelling ста̏рати)

1. (reflexive) to take care of, to look after

Conjugation

Conjugation of starati

Infinitive: starati		Present verbal adverb: stȁrajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: stȁrānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		staram	staraš	stara	staramo	starate	staraju
Future	Future I	starat ću1 staraću	starat ćeš1 staraćeš	starat će1 staraće	starat ćemo1 staraćemo	starat ćete1 staraćete	starat će1 staraće
	Future II	bȕdēm starao2	bȕdēš starao2	bȕdē starao2	bȕdēmo starali2	bȕdēte starali2	bȕdū starali2
Past	Perfect	starao sam2	starao si2	starao je2	starali smo2	starali ste2	starali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam starao2	bȉo si starao2	bȉo je starao2	bíli smo starali2	bíli ste starali2	bíli su starali2
	Imperfect	starah	staraše	staraše	starasmo	staraste	starahu
Conditional I		starao bih2	starao bi2	starao bi2	starali bismo2	starali biste2	starali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih starao2	bȉo bi starao2	bȉo bi starao2	bíli bismo starali2	bíli biste starali2	bíli bi starali2
Imperative		—	staraj	—	starajmo	starajte	—
Active past participle		starao m / starala f / staralo n			starali m / starale f / starala 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

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