zapasti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ pasti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zǎpasti/
• Hyphenation: za‧pas‧ti

Verb

zàpasti pf (Cyrillic spelling за̀пасти)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of zapasti

Infinitive: zapasti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: zàpāvši		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		zapadnem zapanem	zapadneš zapaneš	zapadne zapane	zapadnemo zapanemo	zapadnete zapanete	zapadnu zapanu
Future	Future I	zapast ću1 zapašću	zapast ćeš1 zapašćeš	zapast će1 zapašće	zapast ćemo1 zapašćemo	zapast ćete1 zapašćete	zapast će1 zapašće
	Future II	bȕdēm zapao2	bȕdēš zapao2	bȕdē zapao2	bȕdēmo zapali2	bȕdēte zapali2	bȕdū zapali2
Past	Perfect	zapao sam2	zapao si2	zapao je2	zapali smo2	zapali ste2	zapali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zapao2	bȉo si zapao2	bȉo je zapao2	bíli smo zapali2	bíli ste zapali2	bíli su zapali2
	Aorist	zapadoh	zapade	zapade	zapadosmo	zapadoste	zapadoše
Conditional I		zapao bih2	zapao bi2	zapao bi2	zapali bismo2	zapali biste2	zapali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zapao2	bȉo bi zapao2	bȉo bi zapao2	bíli bismo zapali2	bíli biste zapali2	bíli bi zapali2
Imperative		—	zapadni zapani	—	zapadnimo zapanimo	zapadnite zapanite	—
Active past participle		zapao m / zapala f / zapalo n			zapali m / zapale f / zapala 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

• zàpadati impf

Further reading

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