zapadati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zǎpadati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧pa‧da‧ti

Verb

zàpadati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀падати)

  1. (intransitive) to set (of Sun)
  2. (intransitive) to fall (of snow)
  3. (transitive, intransitive) to fall into, get into (difficulty, unfavorable situation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zapadati
Infinitive: zapadati Present verbal adverb: zàpadajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zàpadānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zapadam zapadaš zapada zapadamo zapadate zapadaju
Future Future I zapadat ću1
zapadaću 		zapadat ćeš1
zapadaćeš 		zapadat će1
zapadaće 		zapadat ćemo1
zapadaćemo 		zapadat ćete1
zapadaćete 		zapadat će1
zapadaće
Future II bȕdēm zapadao2 bȕdēš zapadao2 bȕdē zapadao2 bȕdēmo zapadali2 bȕdēte zapadali2 bȕdū zapadali2
Past Perfect zapadao sam2 zapadao si2 zapadao je2 zapadali smo2 zapadali ste2 zapadali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zapadao2 bȉo si zapadao2 bȉo je zapadao2 bíli smo zapadali2 bíli ste zapadali2 bíli su zapadali2
Imperfect zapadah zapadaše zapadaše zapadasmo zapadaste zapadahu
Conditional I zapadao bih2 zapadao bi2 zapadao bi2 zapadali bismo2 zapadali biste2 zapadali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zapadao2 bȉo bi zapadao2 bȉo bi zapadao2 bíli bismo zapadali2 bíli biste zapadali2 bíli bi zapadali2
Imperative — zapadaj — zapadajmo zapadajte —
Active past participle zapadao m / zapadala f / zapadalo n zapadali m / zapadale f / zapadala 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

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