upiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *upiti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ùpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling у̀пити)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of upiti

Infinitive: upiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: ùpīvši		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		upijem	upiješ	upije	upijemo	upijete	upiju
Future	Future I	upit ću1 upiću	upit ćeš1 upićeš	upit će1 upiće	upit ćemo1 upićemo	upit ćete1 upićete	upit će1 upiće
	Future II	bȕdēm upio2	bȕdēš upio2	bȕdē upio2	bȕdēmo upili2	bȕdēte upili2	bȕdū upili2
Past	Perfect	upio sam2	upio si2	upio je2	upili smo2	upili ste2	upili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam upio2	bȉo si upio2	bȉo je upio2	bíli smo upili2	bíli ste upili2	bíli su upili2
	Aorist	upih	upi	upi	upismo	upiste	upiše
Conditional I		upio bih2	upio bi2	upio bi2	upili bismo2	upili biste2	upili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih upio2	bȉo bi upio2	bȉo bi upio2	bíli bismo upili2	bíli biste upili2	bíli bi upili2
Imperative		—	upij	—	upijmo	upijte	—
Active past participle		upio m / upila f / upilo n			upili m / upile f / upila n
Passive past participle		upijen m / upijena f / upijeno n			upijeni m / upijene f / upijena 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

• upíjati impf

Further reading

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