pretapati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pretòpiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pretǎːpati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧ta‧pa‧ti

Verb

pretápati impf (Cyrillic spelling прета́пати)

  1. imperfective form of pretòpiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretapati
infinitive pretapati
present verbal adverb pretápajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pretápānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pretapam pretapaš pretapa pretapamo pretapate pretapaju
future future I pretapat ću1
pretapaću
pretapat ćeš1
pretapaćeš
pretapat će1
pretapaće
pretapat ćemo1
pretapaćemo
pretapat ćete1
pretapaćete
pretapat ćē1
pretapaće
future II bȕdēm pretapao2 bȕdēš pretapao2 bȕdē pretapao2 bȕdēmo pretapali2 bȕdēte pretapali2 bȕdū pretapali2
past perfect pretapao sam2 pretapao si2 pretapao je2 pretapali smo2 pretapali ste2 pretapali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pretapao2 bȉo si pretapao2 bȉo je pretapao2 bíli smo pretapali2 bíli ste pretapali2 bíli su pretapali2
imperfect pretapah pretapaše pretapaše pretapasmo pretapaste pretapahu
conditional conditional I pretapao bih2 pretapao bi2 pretapao bi2 pretapali bismo2 pretapali biste2 pretapali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pretapao2 bȉo bi pretapao2 bȉo bi pretapao2 bíli bismo pretapali2 bíli biste pretapali2 bíli bi pretapali2
imperative pretapaj pretapajmo pretapajte
active past participle pretapao m / pretapala f / pretapalo n pretapali m / pretapale f / pretapala n
passive past participle pretapan m / pretapana f / pretapano n pretapani m / pretapane f / pretapana 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

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