upijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /upǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: u‧pi‧ja‧ti

Verb

upíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling упи́јати)

1. (transitive) to absorb, imbibe, soak, suck in
2. (reflexive) to attach oneself, cling to

Conjugation

Conjugation of upijati

Infinitive: upijati		Present verbal adverb: upíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: upíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		upijam	upijaš	upija	upijamo	upijate	upijaju
Future	Future I	upijat ću1 upijaću	upijat ćeš1 upijaćeš	upijat će1 upijaće	upijat ćemo1 upijaćemo	upijat ćete1 upijaćete	upijat će1 upijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm upijao2	bȕdēš upijao2	bȕdē upijao2	bȕdēmo upijali2	bȕdēte upijali2	bȕdū upijali2
Past	Perfect	upijao sam2	upijao si2	upijao je2	upijali smo2	upijali ste2	upijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam upijao2	bȉo si upijao2	bȉo je upijao2	bíli smo upijali2	bíli ste upijali2	bíli su upijali2
	Imperfect	upijah	upijaše	upijaše	upijasmo	upijaste	upijahu
Conditional I		upijao bih2	upijao bi2	upijao bi2	upijali bismo2	upijali biste2	upijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih upijao2	bȉo bi upijao2	bȉo bi upijao2	bíli bismo upijali2	bíli biste upijali2	bíli bi upijali2
Imperative		—	upijaj	—	upijajmo	upijajte	—
Active past participle		upijao m / upijala f / upijalo n			upijali m / upijale f / upijala n
Passive past participle		upijan m / upijana f / upijano n			upijani m / upijane f / upijana 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

• ùpiti pf

Further reading

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