liptati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

lìptjeti, lìpteti (alternative infinitive)

Etymology

Of expressive/onomatopoetic origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lǐptati/
Hyphenation: lip‧ta‧ti

Verb

lìptati impf (Cyrillic spelling лѝптати)

(intransitive) to flow, pour strongly (of blood)

Conjugation

Conjugation of liptati

Infinitive: liptati		Present verbal adverb: lìptajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lìptānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		lipćem	lipćeš	lipće	lipćemo	lipćete	lipću
Future	Future I	liptat ću¹ liptaću	liptat ćeš¹ liptaćeš	liptat će¹ liptaće	liptat ćemo¹ liptaćemo	liptat ćete¹ liptaćete	liptat će¹ liptaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm liptao²	bȕdēš liptao²	bȕdē liptao²	bȕdēmo liptali²	bȕdēte liptali²	bȕdū liptali²
Past	Perfect	liptao sam²	liptao si²	liptao je²	liptali smo²	liptali ste²	liptali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam liptao²	bȉo si liptao²	bȉo je liptao²	bíli smo liptali²	bíli ste liptali²	bíli su liptali²
	Imperfect	liptah	liptaše	liptaše	liptasmo	liptaste	liptahu
Conditional I		liptao bih²	liptao bi²	liptao bi²	liptali bismo²	liptali biste²	liptali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih liptao²	bȉo bi liptao²	bȉo bi liptao²	bíli bismo liptali²	bíli biste liptali²	bíli bi liptali²
Imperative		—	lipći	—	lipćimo	lipćite	—
Active past participle		liptao m / liptala f / liptalo n			liptali m / liptale f / liptala 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.

References

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