lipsavati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • lipcavati
  • lipsivati

Etymology

From lȉpsati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lipsǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: lip‧sa‧va‧ti

Verb

lipsávati impf (Cyrillic spelling липса́вати)

  1. imperfective form of lȉpsati

Conjugation

Conjugation of lipsavati
infinitive lipsavati
present verbal adverb lipsávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun lipsávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present lipsavam lipsavaš lipsava lipsavamo lipsavate lipsavaju
future future I lipsavat ću1
lipsavaću
lipsavat ćeš1
lipsavaćeš
lipsavat će1
lipsavaće
lipsavat ćemo1
lipsavaćemo
lipsavat ćete1
lipsavaćete
lipsavat ćē1
lipsavaće
future II bȕdēm lipsavao2 bȕdēš lipsavao2 bȕdē lipsavao2 bȕdēmo lipsavali2 bȕdēte lipsavali2 bȕdū lipsavali2
past perfect lipsavao sam2 lipsavao si2 lipsavao je2 lipsavali smo2 lipsavali ste2 lipsavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam lipsavao2 bȉo si lipsavao2 bȉo je lipsavao2 bíli smo lipsavali2 bíli ste lipsavali2 bíli su lipsavali2
imperfect lipsavah lipsavaše lipsavaše lipsavasmo lipsavaste lipsavahu
conditional conditional I lipsavao bih2 lipsavao bi2 lipsavao bi2 lipsavali bismo2 lipsavali biste2 lipsavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih lipsavao2 bȉo bi lipsavao2 bȉo bi lipsavao2 bíli bismo lipsavali2 bíli biste lipsavali2 bíli bi lipsavali2
imperative lipsavaj lipsavajmo lipsavajte
active past participle lipsavao m / lipsavala f / lipsavalo n lipsavali m / lipsavale f / lipsavala n
passive past participle lipsavan m / lipsavana f / lipsavano n lipsavani m / lipsavane f / lipsavana 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

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