spopasti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spǒpasti/
• Hyphenation: spo‧pas‧ti

Verb

spòpasti pf (Cyrillic spelling спо̀пасти)

1. (transitive) to seize, overcome

Conjugation

Conjugation of spopasti

Infinitive: spopasti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: spòpāvši		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		spopadnem	spopadneš	spopadne	spopadnemo	spopadnete	spopadnu
Future	Future I	spopast ću1 spopašću	spopast ćeš1 spopašćeš	spopast će1 spopašće	spopast ćemo1 spopašćemo	spopast ćete1 spopašćete	spopast će1 spopašće
	Future II	bȕdēm spopao2	bȕdēš spopao2	bȕdē spopao2	bȕdēmo spopali2	bȕdēte spopali2	bȕdū spopali2
Past	Perfect	spopao sam2	spopao si2	spopao je2	spopali smo2	spopali ste2	spopali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam spopao2	bȉo si spopao2	bȉo je spopao2	bíli smo spopali2	bíli ste spopali2	bíli su spopali2
	Aorist	spopadoh	spopade	spopade	spopadosmo	spopadoste	spopadoše
Conditional I		spopao bih2	spopao bi2	spopao bi2	spopali bismo2	spopali biste2	spopali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih spopao2	bȉo bi spopao2	bȉo bi spopao2	bíli bismo spopali2	bíli biste spopali2	bíli bi spopali2
Imperative		—	spopadni	—	spopadnimo	spopadnite	—
Active past participle		spopao m / spopala f / spopalo n			spopali m / spopale f / spopala 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

• spòpadati impf

Further reading

• “spopasti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024