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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 52 Stand, Become, Exist, Cease 303 / 600

stajati (staje) ~ stati (stane)

prefix used with meaning

(none)

(+ dest) (come to) stand

stop

na-

come to exist

ne-

disappear

o- (N) stay, remain

po- (N) become

pre- (inf) stop

pri- (na¨ A) consent, agree

odu- (od¨ G) give up

ra- se² (od¨ G) split, separate

sa- se² (s¨ I) get together, meet

nedo- (DL) lack

There are more verb pairs derived from this base pair, e.g. with zao- meaning lag,

fall behind and so on.

A final remark: the perfective verb stati (stane) is sometimes – mostly in literature

and in speech, in parts of Dalmatia, and some rural areas – used as a phase verb

meaning start. This is quite unexpected, because it otherwise means stand and even

stop! For example, in a novel written by Marija Jurić Zagorka, you can read:

Stao je hodati kolibom I . He started walking over the hut.

I don’t use it, but be prepared to hear and read it from time to time.

________

® In Serbia and Bosnia, instead of hlače f pl. pants, trousers, pantalone f pl. is used.

• Examples

Haustor (meaning entryway, doorway, in inland parts of Croatia, from German),

fronted by Darko Rundek, was a very popular band from Zagreb, still very popular in

many former parts of Yugoslavia. This song, Bi mogo da mogu Could if I could (a

construction yet unexplained) is from 1988:

Uvijek s malo, premalo para G Always with little, too little cash

Kad upale se svjetla N , ode dim N

A miris N noći G

opet postaje stvaran N is becoming real again

(Darko Rundek, Srđan Gulić)

When lights turn on, smoke leaves

And the smell of night

otići

f

postajati

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