treptati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trepati (Russian трепа́ть (trepátʹ), Polish trzepać), compare Lithuanian trepti and Latin trepidus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trěptati/
  • Hyphenation: trep‧ta‧ti

Verb

trèptati impf (Cyrillic spelling трѐптати)

  1. (intransitive) to blink

Conjugation

Conjugation of treptati
infinitive treptati
present verbal adverb trèpćūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun trèptānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present trepćem trepćeš trepće trepćemo trepćete trepću
future future I treptat ću1
treptaću
treptat ćeš1
treptaćeš
treptat će1
treptaće
treptat ćemo1
treptaćemo
treptat ćete1
treptaćete
treptat ćē1
treptaće
future II bȕdēm treptao2 bȕdēš treptao2 bȕdē treptao2 bȕdēmo treptali2 bȕdēte treptali2 bȕdū treptali2
past perfect treptao sam2 treptao si2 treptao je2 treptali smo2 treptali ste2 treptali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam treptao2 bȉo si treptao2 bȉo je treptao2 bíli smo treptali2 bíli ste treptali2 bíli su treptali2
imperfect treptah treptaše treptaše treptasmo treptaste treptahu
conditional conditional I treptao bih2 treptao bi2 treptao bi2 treptali bismo2 treptali biste2 treptali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih treptao2 bȉo bi treptao2 bȉo bi treptao2 bíli bismo treptali2 bíli biste treptali2 bíli bi treptali2
imperative trepći trepćimo trepćite
active past participle treptao m / treptala f / treptalo n treptali m / treptale f / treptala 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

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