zapadati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zǎpadati/
• Hyphenation: za‧pa‧da‧ti

Verb

zàpadati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀падати)

1. (intransitive) to set (of Sun)
2. (intransitive) to fall (of snow)
3. (ambitransitive) to fall into, get into (difficulty, unfavorable situation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zapadati

infinitive		zapadati
present verbal adverb		zàpadajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		zàpadānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		zapadam	zapadaš	zapada	zapadamo	zapadate	zapadaju
future	future I	zapadat ću1 zapadaću	zapadat ćeš1 zapadaćeš	zapadat će1 zapadaće	zapadat ćemo1 zapadaćemo	zapadat ćete1 zapadaćete	zapadat ćē1 zapadaće
	future II	bȕdēm zapadao2	bȕdēš zapadao2	bȕdē zapadao2	bȕdēmo zapadali2	bȕdēte zapadali2	bȕdū zapadali2
past	perfect	zapadao sam2	zapadao si2	zapadao je2	zapadali smo2	zapadali ste2	zapadali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam zapadao2	bȉo si zapadao2	bȉo je zapadao2	bíli smo zapadali2	bíli ste zapadali2	bíli su zapadali2
	imperfect	zapadah	zapadaše	zapadaše	zapadasmo	zapadaste	zapadahu
conditional	conditional I	zapadao bih2	zapadao bi2	zapadao bi2	zapadali bismo2	zapadali biste2	zapadali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih zapadao2	bȉo bi zapadao2	bȉo bi zapadao2	bíli bismo zapadali2	bíli biste zapadali2	bíli bi zapadali2
imperative		—	zapadaj	—	zapadajmo	zapadajte	—
active past participle		zapadao m / zapadala f / zapadalo n			zapadali m / zapadale f / zapadala 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

• zàpasti pf

Further reading

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