otapati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /otǎːpati/
• Hyphenation: o‧ta‧pa‧ti

Verb

otápati impf (Cyrillic spelling ота́пати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to melt, thaw

Conjugation

Conjugation of otapati

Infinitive: otapati		Present verbal adverb: otápajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: otápānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		otapam	otapaš	otapa	otapamo	otapate	otapaju
Future	Future I	otapat ću1 otapaću	otapat ćeš1 otapaćeš	otapat će1 otapaće	otapat ćemo1 otapaćemo	otapat ćete1 otapaćete	otapat će1 otapaće
	Future II	bȕdēm otapao2	bȕdēš otapao2	bȕdē otapao2	bȕdēmo otapali2	bȕdēte otapali2	bȕdū otapali2
Past	Perfect	otapao sam2	otapao si2	otapao je2	otapali smo2	otapali ste2	otapali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam otapao2	bȉo si otapao2	bȉo je otapao2	bíli smo otapali2	bíli ste otapali2	bíli su otapali2
	Imperfect	otapah	otapaše	otapaše	otapasmo	otapaste	otapahu
Conditional I		otapao bih2	otapao bi2	otapao bi2	otapali bismo2	otapali biste2	otapali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih otapao2	bȉo bi otapao2	bȉo bi otapao2	bíli bismo otapali2	bíli biste otapali2	bíli bi otapali2
Imperative		—	otapaj	—	otapajmo	otapajte	—
Active past participle		otapao m / otapala f / otapalo n			otapali m / otapale f / otapala n
Passive past participle		otapan m / otapana f / otapano n			otapani m / otapane f / otapana 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

• otòpiti pf

Further reading

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