štipati

See also: stipati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščipati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtǐːpati/
• Hyphenation: šti‧pa‧ti

Verb

štípati impf (Cyrillic spelling шти́пати)

1. (transitive) to pinch, nip

Conjugation

Conjugation of štipati

Infinitive: štipati		Present verbal adverb: štípajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: štípānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		štipam	štipaš	štipa	štipamo	štipate	štipaju
Future	Future I	štipat ću1 štipaću	štipat ćeš1 štipaćeš	štipat će1 štipaće	štipat ćemo1 štipaćemo	štipat ćete1 štipaćete	štipat će1 štipaće
	Future II	bȕdēm štipao2	bȕdēš štipao2	bȕdē štipao2	bȕdēmo štipali2	bȕdēte štipali2	bȕdū štipali2
Past	Perfect	štipao sam2	štipao si2	štipao je2	štipali smo2	štipali ste2	štipali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam štipao2	bȉo si štipao2	bȉo je štipao2	bíli smo štipali2	bíli ste štipali2	bíli su štipali2
	Imperfect	štipah	štipaše	štipaše	štipasmo	štipaste	štipahu
Conditional I		štipao bih2	štipao bi2	štipao bi2	štipali bismo2	štipali biste2	štipali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih štipao2	bȉo bi štipao2	bȉo bi štipao2	bíli bismo štipali2	bíli biste štipali2	bíli bi štipali2
Imperative		—	štipaj	—	štipajmo	štipajte	—
Active past participle		štipao m / štipala f / štipalo n			štipali m / štipale f / štipala n
Passive past participle		štipan m / štipana f / štipano n			štipani m / štipane f / štipana 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.

Related terms

• štípnuti pf

Further reading

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