cepkati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• cjȅpkati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From cépati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sêpkati/
• Hyphenation: cep‧ka‧ti

Verb

cȅpkati impf (Cyrillic spelling це̏пкати)

1. (transitive) to chop, hack, split (to small pieces)
2. (transitive) to fragment, break up, break down (to small pieces)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cepkati

Infinitive: cepkati		Present verbal adverb: cȅpkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cȅpkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cepkam	cepkaš	cepka	cepkamo	cepkate	cepkaju
Future	Future I	cepkat ću1 cepkaću	cepkat ćeš1 cepkaćeš	cepkat će1 cepkaće	cepkat ćemo1 cepkaćemo	cepkat ćete1 cepkaćete	cepkat će1 cepkaće
	Future II	bȕdēm cepkao2	bȕdēš cepkao2	bȕdē cepkao2	bȕdēmo cepkali2	bȕdēte cepkali2	bȕdū cepkali2
Past	Perfect	cepkao sam2	cepkao si2	cepkao je2	cepkali smo2	cepkali ste2	cepkali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam cepkao2	bȉo si cepkao2	bȉo je cepkao2	bíli smo cepkali2	bíli ste cepkali2	bíli su cepkali2
	Imperfect	cepkah	cepkaše	cepkaše	cepkasmo	cepkaste	cepkahu
Conditional I		cepkao bih2	cepkao bi2	cepkao bi2	cepkali bismo2	cepkali biste2	cepkali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih cepkao2	bȉo bi cepkao2	bȉo bi cepkao2	bíli bismo cepkali2	bíli biste cepkali2	bíli bi cepkali2
Imperative		—	cepkaj	—	cepkajmo	cepkajte	—
Active past participle		cepkao m / cepkala f / cepkalo n			cepkali m / cepkale f / cepkala n
Passive past participle		cepkan m / cepkana f / cepkano n			cepkani m / cepkane f / cepkana 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

• cȅpnuti pf

References

• “cepkati” in Hrvatski jezični portal