lipsati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

lipcati

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lîpsati/
Hyphenation: lip‧sa‧ti

Verb

lȉpsati pf (Cyrillic spelling ли̏псати)

(intransitive) to die (of horse or bovine)
Ne lipši magarče, dok trava naraste. ― Don't die, donkey, until the grass grows.

Conjugation

Conjugation of *lipsati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		lipsati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		lȉpsāvši
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		lipšem	lipšeš	lipše	lipšemo	lipšete	lipšu
future	future I	lipsat ću¹ lipsaću	lipsat ćeš¹ lipsaćeš	lipsat će¹ lipsaće	lipsat ćemo¹ lipsaćemo	lipsat ćete¹ lipsaćete	lipsat ćē¹ lipsaće
future	future II	bȕdēm lipsao²	bȕdēš lipsao²	bȕdē lipsao²	bȕdēmo lipsali²	bȕdēte lipsali²	bȕdū lipsali²
past	perfect	lipsao sam²	lipsao si²	lipsao je²	lipsali smo²	lipsali ste²	lipsali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam lipsao²	bȉo si lipsao²	bȉo je lipsao²	bíli smo lipsali²	bíli ste lipsali²	bíli su lipsali²
	aorist	lipsah	lipsa	lipsa	lipsasmo	lipsaste	lipsaše
conditional	conditional I	lipsao bih²	lipsao bi²	lipsao bi²	lipsali bismo²	lipsali biste²	lipsali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih lipsao²	bȉo bi lipsao²	bȉo bi lipsao²	bíli bismo lipsali²	bíli biste lipsali²	bíli bi lipsali²
imperative		—	lipši	—	lipšimo	lipšite	—
active past participle		lipsao m / lipsala f / lipsalo n			lipsali m / lipsale f / lipsala 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

lipsávati 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

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

[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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