prekipjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• prekípeti (Ekavian)

Etymology

From pre- +‎ kipjeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prekǐːpjeti/
• Hyphenation: pre‧kip‧je‧ti

Verb

prekípjeti pf (Cyrillic spelling преки́пјети)

1. (intransitive) to boil over

   mrzim kad mi prekipi ml(ij)eko ― I hate it when my milk boils over

2. (intransitive, figuratively, usually impersonal) to blow up

   prekip(j)elo mu je pa je počeo razbijati pokućstvo ― he blew up and started breaking furniture

Conjugation

Conjugation of prekipjeti

Infinitive: prekipjeti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: prekípjēvši		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		prekipim	prekipiš	prekipi	prekipimo	prekipite	prekipe
Future	Future I	prekipjet ću1 prekipjeću	prekipjet ćeš1 prekipjećeš	prekipjet će1 prekipjeće	prekipjet ćemo1 prekipjećemo	prekipjet ćete1 prekipjećete	prekipjet će1 prekipjeće
	Future II	bȕdēm prekipio2	bȕdēš prekipio2	bȕdē prekipio2	bȕdēmo prekipjeli2	bȕdēte prekipjeli2	bȕdū prekipjeli2
Past	Perfect	prekipio sam2	prekipio si2	prekipio je2	prekipjeli smo2	prekipjeli ste2	prekipjeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam prekipio2	bȉo si prekipio2	bȉo je prekipio2	bíli smo prekipjeli2	bíli ste prekipjeli2	bíli su prekipjeli2
	Aorist	prekipjeh	prekipje	prekipje	prekipjesmo	prekipjeste	prekipješe
Conditional I		prekipio bih2	prekipio bi2	prekipio bi2	prekipjeli bismo2	prekipjeli biste2	prekipjeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih prekipio2	bȉo bi prekipio2	bȉo bi prekipio2	bíli bismo prekipjeli2	bíli biste prekipjeli2	bíli bi prekipjeli2
Imperative		—	prekipi	—	prekipimo	prekipite	—
Active past participle		prekipio m / prekipjela f / prekipjelo n			prekipjeli m / prekipjele f / prekipjela 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

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