pretopiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ topiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pretǒpiti/
• Hyphenation: pre‧to‧pi‧ti

Verb

pretòpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling прето̀пити)

1. (transitive) to remelt, recast, remold
2. (reflexive) to assimilate (of peoples)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretopiti

Infinitive: pretopiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pretòpīvši		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		pretopim	pretopiš	pretopi	pretopimo	pretopite	pretope
Future	Future I	pretopit ću1 pretopiću	pretopit ćeš1 pretopićeš	pretopit će1 pretopiće	pretopit ćemo1 pretopićemo	pretopit ćete1 pretopićete	pretopit će1 pretopiće
	Future II	bȕdēm pretopio2	bȕdēš pretopio2	bȕdē pretopio2	bȕdēmo pretopili2	bȕdēte pretopili2	bȕdū pretopili2
Past	Perfect	pretopio sam2	pretopio si2	pretopio je2	pretopili smo2	pretopili ste2	pretopili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pretopio2	bȉo si pretopio2	bȉo je pretopio2	bíli smo pretopili2	bíli ste pretopili2	bíli su pretopili2
	Aorist	pretopih	pretopi	pretopi	pretopismo	pretopiste	pretopiše
Conditional I		pretopio bih2	pretopio bi2	pretopio bi2	pretopili bismo2	pretopili biste2	pretopili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pretopio2	bȉo bi pretopio2	bȉo bi pretopio2	bíli bismo pretopili2	bíli biste pretopili2	bíli bi pretopili2
Imperative		—	pretopi	—	pretopimo	pretopite	—
Active past participle		pretopio m / pretopila f / pretopilo n			pretopili m / pretopile f / pretopila n
Passive past participle		pretopljen m / pretopljena f / pretopljeno n			pretopljeni m / pretopljene f / pretopljena 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

• pretápati impf

References

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