čapati

See also: capati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čapati.

Verb

čapati impf (Cyrillic spelling чапати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to grab, snatch

Conjugation

Conjugation of čapati

Infinitive: čapati		Present verbal adverb: čapajući		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: čapanje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		čapam	čapaš	čapa	čapamo	čapate	čapaju
Future	Future I	čapat ću1 čapaću	čapat ćeš1 čapaćeš	čapat će1 čapaće	čapat ćemo1 čapaćemo	čapat ćete1 čapaćete	čapat će1 čapaće
	Future II	bȕdēm čapao2	bȕdēš čapao2	bȕdē čapao2	bȕdēmo čapali2	bȕdēte čapali2	bȕdū čapali2
Past	Perfect	čapao sam2	čapao si2	čapao je2	čapali smo2	čapali ste2	čapali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam čapao2	bȉo si čapao2	bȉo je čapao2	bíli smo čapali2	bíli ste čapali2	bíli su čapali2
	Imperfect	čepah	čepaše	čapaše	čapasmo	čapaste	čapahu
Conditional I		čapao bih2	čapao bi2	čapao bi2	čapali bismo2	čapali biste2	čapali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih čapao2	bȉo bi čapao2	bȉo bi čapao2	bíli bismo čapali2	bíli biste čapali2	bíli bi čapali2
Imperative		—	čapaj	—	čapajmo	čapajte	—
Active past participle		čapao m / čapala f / čapalo n			čapali m / čapale f / čapala n
Passive past participle		čapan m / čapana f / čapano n			čapani m / čapane f / čapana 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

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