zapirati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *za + *pirati, intensive derivative form of *perti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zǎpirati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧pi‧ra‧ti

Verb

zàpirati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀пирати, perfective zàprijēti)

  1. (ambitransitive) to lock, bolt, latch

Conjugation

Conjugation of zapirati
infinitive zapirati
present verbal adverb zàpirūći
past verbal adverb zàpiravši
verbal noun zapiranje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zapirem zapireš zapire zapiremo zapirete zapiru
future future I zapirat ću1
zapiraću
zapirat ćeš1
zapiraćeš
zapirat će1
zapiraće
zapirat ćemo1
zapiraćemo
zapirat ćete1
zapiraćete
zapirat ćē1
zapiraće
future II bȕdēm zapirao2 bȕdēš zapirao2 bȕdē zapirao2 bȕdēmo zapirali2 bȕdēte zapirali2 bȕdū zapirali2
past perfect zapirao sam2 zapirao si2 zapirao je2 zapirali smo2 zapirali ste2 zapirali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zapirao2 bȉo si zapirao2 bȉo je zapirao2 bíli smo zapirali2 bíli ste zapirali2 bíli su zapirali2
imperfect zapirah zapiraše zapiraše zapirasmo zapiraste zapirahu
conditional conditional I zapirao bih2 zapirao bi2 zapirao bi2 zapirali bismo2 zapirali biste2 zapirali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zapirao2 bȉo bi zapirao2 bȉo bi zapirao2 bíli bismo zapirali2 bíli biste zapirali2 bíli bi zapirali2
imperative zapiri zapirimo zapirite
active past participle zapirao m / zapirala f / zapiralo n zapirali m / zapirale f / zapirala n
passive past participle zapiran m / zapirana f / zapirano n zapirani m / zapirane f / zapirana 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

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