potapati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /potǎːpati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ta‧pa‧ti

Verb

potápati impf (Cyrillic spelling пота́пати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to drown, sink
  2. (transitive) to moisten, soak, dip
  3. (transitive) to flood

Conjugation
Conjugation of potapati
Infinitive: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Present verbal adverb: potápajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: potápānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present potapam potapaš potapa potapamo potapate potapaju
Future Future I potapat ću1
potapaću		 potapat ćeš1
potapaćeš		 potapat će1
potapaće		 potapat ćemo1
potapaćemo		 potapat ćete1
potapaćete		 potapat će1
potapaće
Future II bȕdēm potapao2 bȕdēš potapao2 bȕdē potapao2 bȕdēmo potapali2 bȕdēte potapali2 bȕdū potapali2
Past Perfect potapao sam2 potapao si2 potapao je2 potapali smo2 potapali ste2 potapali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam potapao2 bȉo si potapao2 bȉo je potapao2 bíli smo potapali2 bíli ste potapali2 bíli su potapali2
Imperfect potapah potapaše potapaše potapasmo potapaste potapahu
Conditional I potapao bih2 potapao bi2 potapao bi2 potapali bismo2 potapali biste2 potapali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih potapao2 bȉo bi potapao2 bȉo bi potapao2 bíli bismo potapali2 bíli biste potapali2 bíli bi potapali2
Imperative — potapaj — potapajmo potapajte —
Active past participle potapao m / potapala f / potapalo n potapali m / potapale f / potapala n
Passive past participle potapan m / potapana f / potapano n potapani m / potapane f / potapana 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 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
  • “potapati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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