pristupati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pristúpiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pristǔːpati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧stu‧pa‧ti

Verb

pristúpati impf (Cyrillic spelling присту́пати)

  1. imperfective form of pristúpiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of pristupati
infinitive pristupati
present verbal adverb pristúpajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pristúpānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pristupam pristupaš pristupa pristupamo pristupate pristupaju
future future I pristupat ću1
pristupaću
pristupat ćeš1
pristupaćeš
pristupat će1
pristupaće
pristupat ćemo1
pristupaćemo
pristupat ćete1
pristupaćete
pristupat ćē1
pristupaće
future II bȕdēm pristupao2 bȕdēš pristupao2 bȕdē pristupao2 bȕdēmo pristupali2 bȕdēte pristupali2 bȕdū pristupali2
past perfect pristupao sam2 pristupao si2 pristupao je2 pristupali smo2 pristupali ste2 pristupali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pristupao2 bȉo si pristupao2 bȉo je pristupao2 bíli smo pristupali2 bíli ste pristupali2 bíli su pristupali2
imperfect pristupah pristupaše pristupaše pristupasmo pristupaste pristupahu
conditional conditional I pristupao bih2 pristupao bi2 pristupao bi2 pristupali bismo2 pristupali biste2 pristupali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pristupao2 bȉo bi pristupao2 bȉo bi pristupao2 bíli bismo pristupali2 bíli biste pristupali2 bíli bi pristupali2
imperative pristupaj pristupajmo pristupajte
active past participle pristupao m / pristupala f / pristupalo n pristupali m / pristupale f / pristupala 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

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