lipcati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

lipsati

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek λείπω (leípō, “to be missing, to lack”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lîpt͡sati/
Hyphenation: lip‧ca‧ti

Verb

lȉpcati pf (Cyrillic spelling ли̏пцати)

(intransitive) to die (of horse or bovine)
Ne lipči magare, do zelene trave. ― Don't die, donkey, until the green grass.

Conjugation

Conjugation of *lipcati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		lipcati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		lȉpcāvši
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		lipčem	lipčeš	lipče	lipčemo	lipčete	lipču
future	future I	lipcat ću¹ lipcaću	lipcat ćeš¹ lipcaćeš	lipcat će¹ lipcaće	lipcat ćemo¹ lipcaćemo	lipcat ćete¹ lipcaćete	lipcat ćē¹ lipcaće
future	future II	bȕdēm lipcao²	bȕdēš lipcao²	bȕdē lipcao²	bȕdēmo lipcali²	bȕdēte lipcali²	bȕdū lipcali²
past	perfect	lipcao sam²	lipcao si²	lipcao je²	lipcali smo²	lipcali ste²	lipcali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam lipcao²	bȉo si lipcao²	bȉo je lipcao²	bíli smo lipcali²	bíli ste lipcali²	bíli su lipcali²
	aorist	lipcah	lipca	lipca	lipcasmo	lipcaste	lipcaše
conditional	conditional I	lipcao bih²	lipcao bi²	lipcao bi²	lipcali bismo²	lipcali biste²	lipcali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih lipcao²	bȉo bi lipcao²	bȉo bi lipcao²	bíli bismo lipcali²	bíli biste lipcali²	bíli bi lipcali²
imperative		—	lipči	—	lipčimo	lipčite	—
active past participle		lipcao m / lipcala f / lipcalo n			lipcali m / lipcale f / lipcala 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.

Related terms

lipcávati impf

References

^ Vlajić-Popović, Jasna (2015), "Serbian and Greek - A long history of lexical borrowing" in The Serbian language as viewed by the East and the West, Sapporo: Hokkaido University, p. 162

[1] Vlajić-Popović, Jasna (2015), "Serbian and Greek - A long history of lexical borrowing" in The Serbian language as viewed by the East and the West, Sapporo: Hokkaido University, p. 162

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