cepati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

cijépati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From cȇp.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sěːpati/
Hyphenation: ce‧pa‧ti

Verb

cépati impf (Cyrillic spelling це́пати)

(ambitransitive) to tear, tear up
(ambitransitive) to rip
(ambitransitive) to chop
(ambitransitive) to split, break (apart)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *cepati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		cepati
present verbal adverb		cépajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		cépānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		cepam	cepaš	cepa	cepamo	cepate	cepaju
future	future I	cepat ću¹ cepaću	cepat ćeš¹ cepaćeš	cepat će¹ cepaće	cepat ćemo¹ cepaćemo	cepat ćete¹ cepaćete	cepat ćē¹ cepaće
future	future II	bȕdēm cepao²	bȕdēš cepao²	bȕdē cepao²	bȕdēmo cepali²	bȕdēte cepali²	bȕdū cepali²
past	perfect	cepao sam²	cepao si²	cepao je²	cepali smo²	cepali ste²	cepali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam cepao²	bȉo si cepao²	bȉo je cepao²	bíli smo cepali²	bíli ste cepali²	bíli su cepali²
	imperfect	cepah	cepaše	cepaše	cepasmo	cepaste	cepahu
conditional	conditional I	cepao bih²	cepao bi²	cepao bi²	cepali bismo²	cepali biste²	cepali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih cepao²	bȉo bi cepao²	bȉo bi cepao²	bíli bismo cepali²	bíli biste cepali²	bíli bi cepali²
imperative		—	cepaj	—	cepajmo	cepajte	—
active past participle		cepao m / cepala f / cepalo n			cepali m / cepale f / cepala n
passive past participle		cepan m / cepana f / cepano n			cepani m / cepane f / cepana 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.

Derived terms

References

“cepati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025