prespavati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

pre- +‎ spavati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prespǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧spa‧va‧ti

Verb

prespávati pf (Cyrillic spelling преспа́вати)

1. (intransitive) to sleep over
2. (intransitive) to oversleep (miss something by oversleeping)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prespavati

Infinitive: prespavati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: prespávāvši		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		prespavam	prespavaš	prespava	prespavamo	prespavate	prespavaju
Future	Future I	prespavat ću1 prespavaću	prespavat ćeš1 prespavaćeš	prespavat će1 prespavaće	prespavat ćemo1 prespavaćemo	prespavat ćete1 prespavaćete	prespavat će1 prespavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm prespavao2	bȕdēš prespavao2	bȕdē prespavao2	bȕdēmo prespavali2	bȕdēte prespavali2	bȕdū prespavali2
Past	Perfect	prespavao sam2	prespavao si2	prespavao je2	prespavali smo2	prespavali ste2	prespavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam prespavao2	bȉo si prespavao2	bȉo je prespavao2	bíli smo prespavali2	bíli ste prespavali2	bíli su prespavali2
	Aorist	prespavah	prespava	prespava	prespavasmo	prespavaste	prespavaše
Conditional I		prespavao bih2	prespavao bi2	prespavao bi2	prespavali bismo2	prespavali biste2	prespavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih prespavao2	bȉo bi prespavao2	bȉo bi prespavao2	bíli bismo prespavali2	bíli biste prespavali2	bíli bi prespavali2
Imperative		—	prespavaj	—	prespavajmo	prespavajte	—
Active past participle		prespavao m / prespavala f / prespavalo n			prespavali m / prespavale f / prespavala 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

• “prespavati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024