treptati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trepati (Russian трепа́ть (trepátʹ), Polish trzepać), compare Lithuanian trepti and Latin trepidus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /trěptati/
Hyphenation: trep‧ta‧ti

Verb

trèptati impf (Cyrillic spelling трѐптати)

(intransitive) to blink

Conjugation

Conjugation of treptati

Infinitive: treptati		Present verbal adverb: trèpćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trèptānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		trepćem	trepćeš	trepće	trepćemo	trepćete	trepću
Future	Future I	treptat ću¹ treptaću	treptat ćeš¹ treptaćeš	treptat će¹ treptaće	treptat ćemo¹ treptaćemo	treptat ćete¹ treptaćete	treptat će¹ treptaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm treptao²	bȕdēš treptao²	bȕdē treptao²	bȕdēmo treptali²	bȕdēte treptali²	bȕdū treptali²
Past	Perfect	treptao sam²	treptao si²	treptao je²	treptali smo²	treptali ste²	treptali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam treptao²	bȉo si treptao²	bȉo je treptao²	bíli smo treptali²	bíli ste treptali²	bíli su treptali²
	Imperfect	treptah	treptaše	treptaše	treptasmo	treptaste	treptahu
Conditional I		treptao bih²	treptao bi²	treptao bi²	treptali bismo²	treptali biste²	treptali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih treptao²	bȉo bi treptao²	bȉo bi treptao²	bíli bismo treptali²	bíli biste treptali²	bíli bi treptali²
Imperative		—	trepći	—	trepćimo	trepćite	—
Active past participle		treptao m / treptala f / treptalo n			treptali m / treptale f / treptala 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

trȅpnuti, trȅnuti pf

References

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