potapati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /potǎːpati/
• Hyphenation: po‧ta‧pa‧ti

Verb

potápati impf (Cyrillic spelling пота́пати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to drown, sink
2. (transitive) to moisten, soak, dip
3. (transitive) to flood

Conjugation

Conjugation of potapati

Infinitive: potapati		Present verbal adverb: potápajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: potápānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		potapam	potapaš	potapa	potapamo	potapate	potapaju
Future	Future I	potapat ću1 potapaću	potapat ćeš1 potapaćeš	potapat će1 potapaće	potapat ćemo1 potapaćemo	potapat ćete1 potapaćete	potapat će1 potapaće
	Future II	bȕdēm potapao2	bȕdēš potapao2	bȕdē potapao2	bȕdēmo potapali2	bȕdēte potapali2	bȕdū potapali2
Past	Perfect	potapao sam2	potapao si2	potapao je2	potapali smo2	potapali ste2	potapali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam potapao2	bȉo si potapao2	bȉo je potapao2	bíli smo potapali2	bíli ste potapali2	bíli su potapali2
	Imperfect	potapah	potapaše	potapaše	potapasmo	potapaste	potapahu
Conditional I		potapao bih2	potapao bi2	potapao bi2	potapali bismo2	potapali biste2	potapali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih potapao2	bȉo bi potapao2	bȉo bi potapao2	bíli bismo potapali2	bíli biste potapali2	bíli bi potapali2
Imperative		—	potapaj	—	potapajmo	potapajte	—
Active past participle		potapao m / potapala f / potapalo n			potapali m / potapale f / potapala n
Passive past participle		potapan m / potapana f / potapano n			potapani m / potapane f / potapana 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

• potòpiti pf

Further reading

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