prepasti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ pasti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prěpasti/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧pa‧sti

Verb

prèpasti pf (Cyrillic spelling прѐпасти)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to frighten, scare

Conjugation

Conjugation of prepasti
infinitive prepasti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb prèpāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present prepadnem / prepanem prepadneš / prepaneš prepadne / prepane prepadnemo / prepanemo prepadnete / prepanete prepadnu / prepanu
future future I prepast ću1
prepašću
prepast ćeš1
prepašćeš
prepast će1
prepašće
prepast ćemo1
prepašćemo
prepast ćete1
prepašćete
prepast ćē1
prepašće
future II bȕdēm prepao2 bȕdēš prepao2 bȕdē prepao2 bȕdēmo prepali2 bȕdēte prepali2 bȕdū prepali2
past perfect prepao sam2 prepao si2 prepao je2 prepali smo2 prepali ste2 prepali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam prepao2 bȉo si prepao2 bȉo je prepao2 bíli smo prepali2 bíli ste prepali2 bíli su prepali2
aorist prepadoh prepade prepade prepadosmo prepadoste prepadoše
conditional conditional I prepao bih2 prepao bi2 prepao bi2 prepali bismo2 prepali biste2 prepali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih prepao2 bȉo bi prepao2 bȉo bi prepao2 bíli bismo prepali2 bíli biste prepali2 bíli bi prepali2
imperative prepadni / prepani prepadnimo / prepanimo prepadnite / prepanite
active past participle prepao m / prepala f / prepalo n prepali m / prepale f / prepala n
passive past participle prepadnut m / prepadnuta f / prepadnuto n prepadnuti m / prepadnute f / prepadnuta 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.

Further reading

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