tepsti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

See tȅpati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têpsti/
• Hyphenation: tep‧sti

Verb

tȅpsti impf (Cyrillic spelling те̏псти)

1. (transitive) to knock, pound, hit, strike
2. (reflexive) to loiter, roam

Conjugation

Conjugation of tepsti

infinitive		tepsti
present verbal adverb		tèpūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		tèpēnje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		tepem	tepeš	tepe	tepemo	tepete	tepu
future	future I	tepst ću1 tepšću	tepst ćeš1 tepšćeš	tepst će1 tepšće	tepst ćemo1 tepšćemo	tepst ćete1 tepšćete	tepst ćе̄1 tepšće
	future II	bȕdēm tepao2	bȕdēš tepao2	bȕdē tepao2	bȕdēmo tepli2	bȕdēte tepli2	bȕdū tepli2
past	perfect	tepao sam2	tepao si2	tepao je2	tepli smo2	tepli ste2	tepli su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam tepao2	bȉo si tepao2	bȉo je tepao2	bíli smo tepli2	bíli ste tepli2	bíli su tepli2
	imperfect	tepijah	tepijaše	tepijaše	tepijasmo	tepijaste	tepijahu
conditional	conditional I	tepao bih2	tepao bi2	tepao bi2	tepli bismo2	tepli biste2	tepli bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih tepao2	bȉo bi tepao2	bȉo bi tepao2	bíli bismo tepli2	bíli biste tepli2	bíli bi tepli2
imperative		—	tepi	—	tepimo	tepite	—
active past participle		tepao m / tepla f / teplo n			tepli m / teple f / tepla n
passive past participle		tepen m / tepena f / tepeno n			tepeni m / tepene f / tepena 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

• potêpsti
• zatêpsti

References

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *teti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̀ːpsti/
• Hyphenation: têps‧ti

Verb

tépsti impf

1. to hit, to knock, to pound, to strike

Conjugation

Obstruent + -ti -em (AP b)
infinitive	tépsti
1st singular	tépem
infinitive	tépsti			tȅpst, tȇpst
supine	tȅpst, tȇpst
verbal noun	tepénje
	participle			converb
present	tepọ̄č			—
past	tepȅn			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	tẹ́pəł		tépla		téplo
dual	tépla		tépli		tépli
plural	tépli		téple		tépla
	present			imperative
1st singular	tépem			—
2nd singular	tépeš			tépi
3rd singular	tépe			—
1st dual	tépeva			tepȋva
2nd dual	tépeta			tepȋta
3rd dual	tépeta			—
1st plural	tépemo			tepȋmo
2nd plural	tépete			tepȋte
3rd plural	tépejo			—

Derived terms

• iztépsti
• natépsti
• otépsti
• pretépsti
• pritépsti
• raztépsti
• vtépsti