upitati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From u- +‎ pitati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /upǐːtati/
  • Hyphenation: u‧pi‧ta‧ti

Verb

upítati pf (Cyrillic spelling упи́тати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to ask, question

Conjugation

Conjugation of upitati
infinitive upitati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb upítāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present upitam upitaš upita upitamo upitate upitaju
future future I upitat ću1
upitaću
upitat ćeš1
upitaćeš
upitat će1
upitaće
upitat ćemo1
upitaćemo
upitat ćete1
upitaćete
upitat ćē1
upitaće
future II bȕdēm upitao2 bȕdēš upitao2 bȕdē upitao2 bȕdēmo upitali2 bȕdēte upitali2 bȕdū upitali2
past perfect upitao sam2 upitao si2 upitao je2 upitali smo2 upitali ste2 upitali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam upitao2 bȉo si upitao2 bȉo je upitao2 bíli smo upitali2 bíli ste upitali2 bíli su upitali2
aorist upitah upita upita upitasmo upitaste upitaše
conditional conditional I upitao bih2 upitao bi2 upitao bi2 upitali bismo2 upitali biste2 upitali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih upitao2 bȉo bi upitao2 bȉo bi upitao2 bíli bismo upitali2 bíli biste upitali2 bíli bi upitali2
imperative upitaj upitajmo upitajte
active past participle upitao m / upitala f / upitalo n upitali m / upitale f / upitala n
passive past participle upitan m / upitana f / upitano n upitani m / upitane f / upitana 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

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