spopadati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spǒpadati/
• Hyphenation: spo‧pa‧da‧ti

Verb

spòpadati impf (Cyrillic spelling спо̀падати)

1. (transitive) to seize, overcome

Conjugation

Conjugation of spopadati

Infinitive: spopadati		Present verbal adverb: spòpadajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: spòpadānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		spopadam	spopadaš	spopada	spopadamo	spopadate	spopadaju
Future	Future I	spopadat ću1 spopadaću	spopadat ćeš1 spopadaćeš	spopadat će1 spopadaće	spopadat ćemo1 spopadaćemo	spopadat ćete1 spopadaćete	spopadat će1 spopadaće
	Future II	bȕdēm spopadao2	bȕdēš spopadao2	bȕdē spopadao2	bȕdēmo spopadali2	bȕdēte spopadali2	bȕdū spopadali2
Past	Perfect	spopadao sam2	spopadao si2	spopadao je2	spopadali smo2	spopadali ste2	spopadali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam spopadao2	bȉo si spopadao2	bȉo je spopadao2	bíli smo spopadali2	bíli ste spopadali2	bíli su spopadali2
	Imperfect	spopadah	spopadaše	spopadaše	spopadasmo	spopadaste	spopadahu
Conditional I		spopadao bih2	spopadao bi2	spopadao bi2	spopadali bismo2	spopadali biste2	spopadali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih spopadao2	bȉo bi spopadao2	bȉo bi spopadao2	bíli bismo spopadali2	bíli biste spopadali2	bíli bi spopadali2
Imperative		—	spopadaj	—	spopadajmo	spopadajte	—
Active past participle		spopadao m / spopadala f / spopadalo n			spopadali m / spopadale f / spopadala 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

• spòpasti pf

Further reading

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