spadati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ padati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spâdati/
• Hyphenation: spa‧da‧ti

Verb

spȁdati impf (Cyrillic spelling спа̏дати)

1. (intransitive) to fall down
2. (intransitive) to decline
3. (intransitive) to be reduced to, be lowered or debased
4. (intransitive) to belong

Conjugation

Conjugation of spadati

Infinitive: spadati		Present verbal adverb: spȁdajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: spȁdānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		spadam	spadaš	spada	spadamo	spadate	spadaju
Future	Future I	spadat ću1 spadaću	spadat ćeš1 spadaćeš	spadat će1 spadaće	spadat ćemo1 spadaćemo	spadat ćete1 spadaćete	spadat će1 spadaće
	Future II	bȕdēm spadao2	bȕdēš spadao2	bȕdē spadao2	bȕdēmo spadali2	bȕdēte spadali2	bȕdū spadali2
Past	Perfect	spadao sam2	spadao si2	spadao je2	spadali smo2	spadali ste2	spadali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam spadao2	bȉo si spadao2	bȉo je spadao2	bíli smo spadali2	bíli ste spadali2	bíli su spadali2
	Imperfect	spadah	spadaše	spadaše	spadasmo	spadaste	spadahu
Conditional I		spadao bih2	spadao bi2	spadao bi2	spadali bismo2	spadali biste2	spadali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih spadao2	bȉo bi spadao2	bȉo bi spadao2	bíli bismo spadali2	bíli biste spadali2	bíli bi spadali2
Imperative		—	spadaj	—	spadajmo	spadajte	—
Active past participle		spadao m / spadala f / spadalo n			spadali m / spadale f / spadala 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

• spȁsti pf

Further reading

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