potopiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *potopiti. Compare Czech potopit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /potǒpiti/
• Hyphenation: po‧to‧pi‧ti

Verb

potòpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling пото̀пити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to drown, sink

   Atlantis, potopljeni grad ― Atlantis, the drowned city

2. (transitive) to moisten, soak, dip
3. (transitive) to flood

Conjugation

Conjugation of potopiti

infinitive		potopiti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		potòpīvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		potopim	potopiš	potopi	potopimo	potopite	potope
future	future I	potopit ću1 potopiću	potopit ćeš1 potopićeš	potopit će1 potopiće	potopit ćemo1 potopićemo	potopit ćete1 potopićete	potopit ćē1 potopiće
	future II	bȕdēm potopio2	bȕdēš potopio2	bȕdē potopio2	bȕdēmo potopili2	bȕdēte potopili2	bȕdū potopili2
past	perfect	potopio sam2	potopio si2	potopio je2	potopili smo2	potopili ste2	potopili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam potopio2	bȉo si potopio2	bȉo je potopio2	bíli smo potopili2	bíli ste potopili2	bíli su potopili2
	aorist	potopih	potopi	potopi	potopismo	potopiste	potopiše
conditional	conditional I	potopio bih2	potopio bi2	potopio bi2	potopili bismo2	potopili biste2	potopili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih potopio2	bȉo bi potopio2	bȉo bi potopio2	bíli bismo potopili2	bíli biste potopili2	bíli bi potopili2
imperative		—	potopi	—	potopimo	potopite	—
active past participle		potopio m / potopila f / potopilo n			potopili m / potopile f / potopila n
passive past participle		potopljen m / potopljena f / potopljeno n			potopljeni m / potopljene f / potopljena 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

• potápati impf

Further reading

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