prepadati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ padati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prěpadati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧pa‧da‧ti

Verb

prèpadati impf (Cyrillic spelling прѐпадати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to frighten, scare

Conjugation

Conjugation of prepadati

Infinitive: prepadati		Present verbal adverb: prèpadajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prèpadānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		prepadam	prepadaš	prepada	prepadamo	prepadate	prepadaju
Future	Future I	prepadat ću1 prepadaću	prepadat ćeš1 prepadaćeš	prepadat će1 prepadaće	prepadat ćemo1 prepadaćemo	prepadat ćete1 prepadaćete	prepadat ćē1 prepadaće
	Future II	bȕdēm prepadao2	bȕdēš prepadao2	bȕdē prepadao2	bȕdēmo prepadali2	bȕdēte prepadali2	bȕdū prepadali2
Past	Perfect	prepadao sam2	prepadao si2	prepadao je2	prepadali smo2	prepadali ste2	prepadali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam prepadao2	bȉo si prepadao2	bȉo je prepadao2	bíli smo prepadali2	bíli ste prepadali2	bíli su prepadali2
	Imperfect	prepadah	prepadaše	prepadaše	prepadasmo	prepadaste	prepadahu
Conditional I		prepadao bih2	prepadao bi2	prepadao bi2	prepadali bismo2	prepadali biste2	prepadali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih prepadao2	bȉo bi prepadao2	bȉo bi prepadao2	bíli bismo prepadali2	bíli biste prepadali2	bíli bi prepadali2
Imperative		—	prepadaj	—	prepadajmo	prepadajte	—
Active past participle		prepadao m / prepadala f / prepadalo n			prepadali m / prepadale f / prepadala n
Passive past participle		prepadan m / prepadana f / prepadano n			prepadani m / prepadane f / prepadana 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

• prèpasti pf

Further reading

• “prepadati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025