cepati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cȇp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sěːpati/
  • Hyphenation: ce‧pa‧ti

Verb

cépati impf (Cyrillic spelling це́пати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to tear, tear up
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to rip
  3. (transitive, intransitive) to chop
  4. (transitive, intransitive) to split, break (apart)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cepati
Infinitive: cepati Present verbal adverb: cépajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: cépānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present cepam cepaš cepa cepamo cepate cepaju
Future Future I cepat ću1
cepaću 		cepat ćeš1
cepaćeš 		cepat će1
cepaće 		cepat ćemo1
cepaćemo 		cepat ćete1
cepaćete 		cepat će1
cepaće
Future II bȕdēm cepao2 bȕdēš cepao2 bȕdē cepao2 bȕdēmo cepali2 bȕdēte cepali2 bȕdū cepali2
Past Perfect cepao sam2 cepao si2 cepao je2 cepali smo2 cepali ste2 cepali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam cepao2 bȉo si cepao2 bȉo je cepao2 bíli smo cepali2 bíli ste cepali2 bíli su cepali2
Imperfect cepah cepaše cepaše cepasmo cepaste cepahu
Conditional I cepao bih2 cepao bi2 cepao bi2 cepali bismo2 cepali biste2 cepali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih cepao2 bȉo bi cepao2 bȉo bi cepao2 bíli bismo cepali2 bíli biste cepali2 bíli bi cepali2
Imperative — cepaj — cepajmo cepajte —
Active past participle cepao m / cepala f / cepalo n cepali m / cepale f / cepala n
Passive past participle cepan m / cepana f / cepano n cepani m / cepane f / cepana 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.

Derived terms

References

  • “cepati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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