sapirati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎpirati/
• Hyphenation: sa‧pi‧ra‧ti

Verb

sàpirati impf (Cyrillic spelling са̀пирати)

1. (transitive) to wash away, wash off

Conjugation

Conjugation of sapirati

Infinitive: sapirati		Present verbal adverb: sàpirūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sàpirānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sapiram	sapiraš	sapira	sapiramo	sapirate	sapiraju
Future	Future I	sapirat ću1 sapiraću	sapirat ćeš1 sapiraćeš	sapirat će1 sapiraće	sapirat ćemo1 sapiraćemo	sapirat ćete1 sapiraćete	sapirat će1 sapiraće
	Future II	bȕdēm sapirao2	bȕdēš sapirao2	bȕdē sapirao2	bȕdēmo sapirali2	bȕdēte sapirali2	bȕdū sapirali2
Past	Perfect	sapirao sam2	sapirao si2	sapirao je2	sapirali smo2	sapirali ste2	sapirali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sapirao2	bȉo si sapirao2	bȉo je sapirao2	bíli smo sapirali2	bíli ste sapirali2	bíli su sapirali2
	Imperfect	sapirah	sapiraše	sapiraše	sapirasmo	sapiraste	sapirahu
Conditional I		sapirao bih2	sapirao bi2	sapirao bi2	sapirali bismo2	sapirali biste2	sapirali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sapirao2	bȉo bi sapirao2	bȉo bi sapirao2	bíli bismo sapirali2	bíli biste sapirali2	bíli bi sapirali2
Imperative		—	sapiraj	—	sapirajmo	sapirajte	—
Active past participle		sapirao m / sapirala f / sapiralo n			sapirali m / sapirale f / sapirala n
Passive past participle		sapiran m / sapirana f / sapirano n			sapirani m / sapirane f / sapirana 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

• sàprati pf

Further reading

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