treptati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trepati (Russian трепа́ть (trepátʹ), Polish trzepać), compare Lithuanian trepti and Latin trepidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trěptati/
• Hyphenation: trep‧ta‧ti

Verb

trèptati impf (Cyrillic spelling трѐптати)

1. (intransitive) to blink

Conjugation

Conjugation of treptati

Infinitive: treptati		Present verbal adverb: trèpćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trèptānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		trepćem	trepćeš	trepće	trepćemo	trepćete	trepću
Future	Future I	treptat ću1 treptaću	treptat ćeš1 treptaćeš	treptat će1 treptaće	treptat ćemo1 treptaćemo	treptat ćete1 treptaćete	treptat će1 treptaće
	Future II	bȕdēm treptao2	bȕdēš treptao2	bȕdē treptao2	bȕdēmo treptali2	bȕdēte treptali2	bȕdū treptali2
Past	Perfect	treptao sam2	treptao si2	treptao je2	treptali smo2	treptali ste2	treptali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam treptao2	bȉo si treptao2	bȉo je treptao2	bíli smo treptali2	bíli ste treptali2	bíli su treptali2
	Imperfect	treptah	treptaše	treptaše	treptasmo	treptaste	treptahu
Conditional I		treptao bih2	treptao bi2	treptao bi2	treptali bismo2	treptali biste2	treptali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih treptao2	bȉo bi treptao2	bȉo bi treptao2	bíli bismo treptali2	bíli biste treptali2	bíli bi treptali2
Imperative		—	trepći	—	trepćimo	trepćite	—
Active past participle		treptao m / treptala f / treptalo n			treptali m / treptale f / treptala 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

• trȅpnuti, trȅnuti pf

References

• “treptati” in Hrvatski jezični portal