prospavati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

pro- +‎ spavati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prospǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧spa‧va‧ti

Verb

prospávati pf (Cyrillic spelling проспа́вати)

  1. (intransitive) to sleep (for some time)
  2. (transitive) to oversleep (miss by oversleeping something)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prospavati
infinitive prospavati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb prospávāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present prospavam prospavaš prospava prospavamo prospavate prospavaju
future future I prospavat ću1
prospavaću
prospavat ćeš1
prospavaćeš
prospavat će1
prospavaće
prospavat ćemo1
prospavaćemo
prospavat ćete1
prospavaćete
prospavat ćē1
prospavaće
future II bȕdēm prospavao2 bȕdēš prospavao2 bȕdē prospavao2 bȕdēmo prospavali2 bȕdēte prospavali2 bȕdū prospavali2
past perfect prospavao sam2 prospavao si2 prospavao je2 prospavali smo2 prospavali ste2 prospavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam prospavao2 bȉo si prospavao2 bȉo je prospavao2 bíli smo prospavali2 bíli ste prospavali2 bíli su prospavali2
aorist prospavah prospava prospava prospavasmo prospavaste prospavaše
conditional conditional I prospavao bih2 prospavao bi2 prospavao bi2 prospavali bismo2 prospavali biste2 prospavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih prospavao2 bȉo bi prospavao2 bȉo bi prospavao2 bíli bismo prospavali2 bíli biste prospavali2 bíli bi prospavali2
imperative prospavaj prospavajmo prospavajte
active past participle prospavao m / prospavala f / prospavalo n prospavali m / prospavale f / prospavala n
passive past participle prospavan m / prospavana f / prospavano n prospavani m / prospavane f / prospavana 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

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