zjapiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Cognate with English gape

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zjǎːpiti/
• Hyphenation: zja‧pi‧ti

Verb

zjápiti impf (Cyrillic spelling зја́пити)

1. (intransitive) to be wide open; gape

Conjugation

Conjugation of zjapiti

Infinitive: zjapiti		Present verbal adverb: zjápēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zjápljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zjapim	zjapiš	zjapi	zjapimo	zjapite	zjape
Future	Future I	zjapit ću1 zjapiću	zjapit ćeš1 zjapićeš	zjapit će1 zjapiće	zjapit ćemo1 zjapićemo	zjapit ćete1 zjapićete	zjapit će1 zjapiće
	Future II	bȕdēm zjapio2	bȕdēš zjapio2	bȕdē zjapio2	bȕdēmo zjapili2	bȕdēte zjapili2	bȕdū zjapili2
Past	Perfect	zjapio sam2	zjapio si2	zjapio je2	zjapili smo2	zjapili ste2	zjapili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zjapio2	bȉo si zjapio2	bȉo je zjapio2	bíli smo zjapili2	bíli ste zjapili2	bíli su zjapili2
	Imperfect	zjapljah	zjapljaše	zjapljaše	zjapljasmo	zjapljaste	zjapljahu
Conditional I		zjapio bih2	zjapio bi2	zjapio bi2	zjapili bismo2	zjapili biste2	zjapili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zjapio2	bȉo bi zjapio2	bȉo bi zjapio2	bíli bismo zjapili2	bíli biste zjapili2	bíli bi zjapili2
Imperative		—	zjapi	—	zjapimo	zjapite	—
Active past participle		zjapio m / zjapila f / zjapilo n			zjapili m / zjapile f / zjapila 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

• zjȁpnuti pf