upijati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /upǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: u‧pi‧ja‧ti

Verb

upíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling упи́јати)

  1. (transitive) to absorb, imbibe, soak, suck in
  2. (reflexive) to attach oneself, cling to

Conjugation

Conjugation of upijati
Infinitive: upijati Present verbal adverb: upíjajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: upíjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present upijam upijaš upija upijamo upijate upijaju
Future Future I upijat ću1
upijaću 		upijat ćeš1
upijaćeš 		upijat će1
upijaće 		upijat ćemo1
upijaćemo 		upijat ćete1
upijaćete 		upijat će1
upijaće
Future II bȕdēm upijao2 bȕdēš upijao2 bȕdē upijao2 bȕdēmo upijali2 bȕdēte upijali2 bȕdū upijali2
Past Perfect upijao sam2 upijao si2 upijao je2 upijali smo2 upijali ste2 upijali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam upijao2 bȉo si upijao2 bȉo je upijao2 bíli smo upijali2 bíli ste upijali2 bíli su upijali2
Imperfect upijah upijaše upijaše upijasmo upijaste upijahu
Conditional I upijao bih2 upijao bi2 upijao bi2 upijali bismo2 upijali biste2 upijali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih upijao2 bȉo bi upijao2 bȉo bi upijao2 bíli bismo upijali2 bíli biste upijali2 bíli bi upijali2
Imperative — upijaj — upijajmo upijajte —
Active past participle upijao m / upijala f / upijalo n upijali m / upijale f / upijala n
Passive past participle upijan m / upijana f / upijano n upijani m / upijane f / upijana 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

  • “upijati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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