nastupati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nastǔːpati/
  • Hyphenation: na‧stu‧pa‧ti

Verb

nastúpati impf (Cyrillic spelling насту́пати)

  1. (intransitive) to begin
  2. (intransitive) to behave, act
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) to tread, step on
    • 1404, anonymous, Kočerin tablet, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      и молꙋ вась не настꙋпаите на ме ѣ смь биль како ви есте ви ꙉете бити каковь смь ѣ
      And I pray you, do not tread on me. I was as you are; you shall be as I am.

Conjugation

Conjugation of nastupati
infinitive nastupati
present verbal adverb nastúpajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun nastúpānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present nastupam nastupaš nastupa nastupamo nastupate nastupaju
future future I nastupat ću1
nastupaću
nastupat ćeš1
nastupaćeš
nastupat će1
nastupaće
nastupat ćemo1
nastupaćemo
nastupat ćete1
nastupaćete
nastupat ćē1
nastupaće
future II bȕdēm nastupao2 bȕdēš nastupao2 bȕdē nastupao2 bȕdēmo nastupali2 bȕdēte nastupali2 bȕdū nastupali2
past perfect nastupao sam2 nastupao si2 nastupao je2 nastupali smo2 nastupali ste2 nastupali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam nastupao2 bȉo si nastupao2 bȉo je nastupao2 bíli smo nastupali2 bíli ste nastupali2 bíli su nastupali2
imperfect nastupah nastupaše nastupaše nastupasmo nastupaste nastupahu
conditional conditional I nastupao bih2 nastupao bi2 nastupao bi2 nastupali bismo2 nastupali biste2 nastupali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih nastupao2 bȉo bi nastupao2 bȉo bi nastupao2 bíli bismo nastupali2 bíli biste nastupali2 bíli bi nastupali2
imperative nastupaj nastupajmo nastupajte
active past participle nastupao m / nastupala f / nastupalo n nastupali m / nastupale f / nastupala 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.