cepati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): cijépati

Etymology

From cȇp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sěːpati/
• Hyphenation: ce‧pa‧ti

Verb

cépati impf (Cyrillic spelling це́пати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to tear, tear up
2. (transitive, intransitive) to rip
3. (transitive, intransitive) to chop
4. (transitive, intransitive) to split, break (apart)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cepati

Infinitive: cepati		Present verbal adverb: cépajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cépānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cepam	cepaš	cepa	cepamo	cepate	cepaju
Future	Future I	cepat ću1 cepaću	cepat ćeš1 cepaćeš	cepat će1 cepaće	cepat ćemo1 cepaćemo	cepat ćete1 cepaćete	cepat će1 cepaće
	Future II	bȕdēm cepao2	bȕdēš cepao2	bȕdē cepao2	bȕdēmo cepali2	bȕdēte cepali2	bȕdū cepali2
Past	Perfect	cepao sam2	cepao si2	cepao je2	cepali smo2	cepali ste2	cepali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam cepao2	bȉo si cepao2	bȉo je cepao2	bíli smo cepali2	bíli ste cepali2	bíli su cepali2
	Imperfect	cepah	cepaše	cepaše	cepasmo	cepaste	cepahu
Conditional I		cepao bih2	cepao bi2	cepao bi2	cepali bismo2	cepali biste2	cepali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih cepao2	bȉo bi cepao2	bȉo bi cepao2	bíli bismo cepali2	bíli biste cepali2	bíli bi cepali2
Imperative		—	cepaj	—	cepajmo	cepajte	—
Active past participle		cepao m / cepala f / cepalo n			cepali m / cepale f / cepala n
Passive past participle		cepan m / cepana f / cepano n			cepani m / cepane f / cepana 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.

Derived terms

• pocépati
• iscépati

• nacépati

References

• “cepati” in Hrvatski jezični portal