prepasti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ pasti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prěpasti/
• Hyphenation: pre‧pa‧sti

Verb

prèpasti pf (Cyrillic spelling прѐпасти)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to frighten, scare

Conjugation

Conjugation of prepasti

Infinitive: prepasti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: prèpāvši		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		prepadnem / prepanem	prepadneš / prepaneš	prepadne / prepane	prepadnemo / prepanemo	prepadnete / prepanete	prepadnu / prepanu
Future	Future I	prepast ću1 prepašću	prepast ćeš1 prepašćeš	prepast će1 prepašće	prepast ćemo1 prepašćemo	prepast ćete1 prepašćete	prepast ćē1 prepašće
	Future II	bȕdēm prepao2	bȕdēš prepao2	bȕdē prepao2	bȕdēmo prepali2	bȕdēte prepali2	bȕdū prepali2
Past	Perfect	prepao sam2	prepao si2	prepao je2	prepali smo2	prepali ste2	prepali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam prepao2	bȉo si prepao2	bȉo je prepao2	bíli smo prepali2	bíli ste prepali2	bíli su prepali2
	Aorist	prepadoh	prepade	prepade	prepadosmo	prepadoste	prepadoše
Conditional I		prepao bih2	prepao bi2	prepao bi2	prepali bismo2	prepali biste2	prepali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih prepao2	bȉo bi prepao2	bȉo bi prepao2	bíli bismo prepali2	bíli biste prepali2	bíli bi prepali2
Imperative		—	prepadni / prepani	—	prepadnimo / prepanimo	prepadnite / prepanite	—
Active past participle		prepao m / prepala f / prepalo n			prepali m / prepale f / prepala n
Passive past participle		prepadnut m / prepadnuta f / prepadnuto n			prepadnuti m / prepadnute f / prepadnuta 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

• prèpadati impf

Further reading

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