kapirati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German kapieren.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kapǐːrati/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧ra‧ti

Verb

kapírati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling капи́рати)

  1. (informal, colloquial) to understand, comprehend

Conjugation

Conjugation of kapirati
infinitive kapirati
present verbal adverb kapirajući
past verbal adverb
verbal noun kapirānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present kapiram kapiraš kapira kapiramo kapirate kapiraju
future future I kapirat ću1
kapiraću
kapirat ćeš1
kapiraćeš
kapirat će1
kapiraće
kapirat ćemo1
kapiraćemo
kapirat ćete1
kapiraćete
kapirat ćē1
kapiraće
future II bȕdēm kapirao2 bȕdēš kapirao2 bȕdē kapirao2 bȕdēmo kapirali2 bȕdēte kapirali2 bȕdū kapirali2
past perfect kapirao sam2 kapirao si2 kapirao je2 kapirali smo2 kapirali ste2 kapirali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam kapirao2 bȉo si kapirao2 bȉo je kapirao2 bíli smo kapirali2 bíli ste kapirali2 bíli su kapirali2
imperfect kapirah kapiraše kapiraše kapirasmo kapiraste kapirahu
conditional conditional I kapirao bih2 kapirao bi2 kapirao bi2 kapirali bismo2 kapirali biste2 kapirali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih kapirao2 bȉo bi kapirao2 bȉo bi kapirao2 bíli bismo kapirali2 bíli biste kapirali2 bíli bi kapirali2
imperative kapiraj kapirajmo kapirajte
active past participle kapirao m / kapirala f / kapiralo n kapirali m / kapirale f / kapirala n
passive past participle kapiran m / kapirana f / kapirano n kapirani m / kapirane f / kapirana 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.

References

  • kapirati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025