stapati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stǎːpati/
• Hyphenation: sta‧pa‧ti

Verb

stápati impf (Cyrillic spelling ста́пати)

1. imperfective form of stòpiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of stapati

Infinitive: stapati		Present verbal adverb: stápajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: stápānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		stapam	stapaš	stapa	stapamo	stapate	stapaju
Future	Future I	stapat ću1 stapaću	stapat ćeš1 stapaćeš	stapat će1 stapaće	stapat ćemo1 stapaćemo	stapat ćete1 stapaćete	stapat će1 stapaće
	Future II	bȕdēm stapao2	bȕdēš stapao2	bȕdē stapao2	bȕdēmo stapali2	bȕdēte stapali2	bȕdū stapali2
Past	Perfect	stapao sam2	stapao si2	stapao je2	stapali smo2	stapali ste2	stapali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam stapao2	bȉo si stapao2	bȉo je stapao2	bíli smo stapali2	bíli ste stapali2	bíli su stapali2
	Imperfect	stapah	stapaše	stapaše	stapasmo	stapaste	stapahu
Conditional I		stapao bih2	stapao bi2	stapao bi2	stapali bismo2	stapali biste2	stapali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih stapao2	bȉo bi stapao2	bȉo bi stapao2	bíli bismo stapali2	bíli biste stapali2	bíli bi stapali2
Imperative		—	stapaj	—	stapajmo	stapajte	—
Active past participle		stapao m / stapala f / stapalo n			stapali m / stapale f / stapala n
Passive past participle		stapan m / stapana f / stapano n			stapani m / stapane f / stapana 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.

Further reading

• “stapati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025