šaptati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *šьpъtati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃǎptati/
Hyphenation: šap‧ta‧ti

Verb

šàptati impf (Cyrillic spelling ша̀птати)

(ambitransitive) to whisper
(theater and television) to prompt

Conjugation

Conjugation of *šaptati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		šaptati
present verbal adverb		šȁpćūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		šàptānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		šapćem	šapćeš	šapće	šapćemo	šapćete	šapću
future	future I	šaptat ću¹ šaptaću	šaptat ćeš¹ šaptaćeš	šaptat će¹ šaptaće	šaptat ćemo¹ šaptaćemo	šaptat ćete¹ šaptaćete	šaptat ćē¹ šaptaće
future	future II	bȕdēm šaptao²	bȕdēš šaptao²	bȕdē šaptao²	bȕdēmo šaptali²	bȕdēte šaptali²	bȕdū šaptali²
past	perfect	šaptao sam²	šaptao si²	šaptao je²	šaptali smo²	šaptali ste²	šaptali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam šaptao²	bȉo si šaptao²	bȉo je šaptao²	bíli smo šaptali²	bíli ste šaptali²	bíli su šaptali²
	imperfect	šaptah	šaptaše	šaptaše	šaptasmo	šaptaste	šaptahu
conditional	conditional I	šaptao bih²	šaptao bi²	šaptao bi²	šaptali bismo²	šaptali biste²	šaptali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih šaptao²	bȉo bi šaptao²	bȉo bi šaptao²	bíli bismo šaptali²	bíli biste šaptali²	bíli bi šaptali²
imperative		—	šapći	—	šapćimo	šapćite	—
active past participle		šaptao m / šaptala f / šaptalo n			šaptali m / šaptale f / šaptala 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.