parengti

Parengti is a Lithuanian verb that means to prepare or to make ready. It covers activities intended to bring something into a usable or organized state in advance of a task, event, meal, or process. The term conveys pre-arrangement and readiness for subsequent steps.

It is used transitively with direct objects, for example parengti maistą (to prepare food), parengti renginį (to organize an event), or parengti dokumentus (to prepare documents). In many contexts it implies deliberate, planned action undertaken to ensure readiness rather than a purely spontaneous act.

Forming related words, the noun parengimas means preparation, and the adjective parengtas describes something that has been prepared. The verb belongs to standard Lithuanian verb patterns; it is often contrasted with paruošti, which can carry a broader sense of making something ready for use without the nuance of pre-arrangement.

Usage note: While similar to paruošti, parengti is typically used when emphasizing completion and readiness for a forthcoming step, whereas paruošti can be used more generally to refer to making ready or cleaning up. Both are common in formal and everyday language.