popeti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ pȇti.

Verb

pòpēti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀пе̄ти)

1. (reflexive) to climb, rise, ascend

   Faraon se popeo na prijestolje. ― The pharaoh ascended to the throne.

Conjugation

Conjugation of popeti

Infinitive: popeti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: popevši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		popnem	popneš	popne	popnemo	popnete	popnu
Future	Future I	popet ću1 popeću	popet ćeš1 popećeš	popet će1 popeće	popet ćemo1 popećemo	popet ćete1 popećete	popet će1 popeće
	Future II	bȕdēm popeo2	bȕdēš popeo2	bȕdē popeo2	bȕdēmo popeli2	bȕdēte popeli2	bȕdū popeli2
Past	Perfect	popeo sam2	popeo si2	popeo je2	popeli smo2	popeli ste2	popeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam popeo2	bȉo si popeo2	bȉo je popeo2	bíli smo popeli2	bíli ste popeli2	bíli su popeli2
	Imperfect	popeh	pope	pope	popesmo	popeste	popeše
Conditional I		popeo bih2	popeo bi2	popeo bi2	popeli bismo2	popeli biste2	popeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih popeo2	bȉo bi popeo2	bȉo bi popeo2	bíli bismo popeli2	bíli biste popeli2	bíli bi popeli2
Imperative		—	popni	—	popnimo	popnite	—
Active past participle		popeo m / popela f / popelo n			popeli m / popele f / popela 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

• pènjati impf

References

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