zapaliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zapaliti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zapǎːliti/
• Hyphenation: za‧pa‧li‧ti

Verb

zapáliti pf (Cyrillic spelling запа́лити)

1. (transitive) to set fire to, to set on fire, to burn
2. (transitive) to commit arson
3. (reflexive) to catch fire, to go up in flames

Conjugation

Conjugation of zapaliti

infinitive		zapaliti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		zapálīvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		zapalim	zapališ	zapali	zapalimo	zapalite	zapale
future	future I	zapalit ću1 zapaliću	zapalit ćeš1 zapalićeš	zapalit će1 zapaliće	zapalit ćemo1 zapalićemo	zapalit ćete1 zapalićete	zapalit ćē1 zapaliće
	future II	bȕdēm zapalio2	bȕdēš zapalio2	bȕdē zapalio2	bȕdēmo zapalili2	bȕdēte zapalili2	bȕdū zapalili2
past	perfect	zapalio sam2	zapalio si2	zapalio je2	zapalili smo2	zapalili ste2	zapalili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam zapalio2	bȉo si zapalio2	bȉo je zapalio2	bíli smo zapalili2	bíli ste zapalili2	bíli su zapalili2
	aorist	zapalih	zapali	zapali	zapalismo	zapaliste	zapališe
conditional	conditional I	zapalio bih2	zapalio bi2	zapalio bi2	zapalili bismo2	zapalili biste2	zapalili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih zapalio2	bȉo bi zapalio2	bȉo bi zapalio2	bíli bismo zapalili2	bíli biste zapalili2	bíli bi zapalili2
imperative		—	zapali	—	zapalimo	zapalite	—
active past participle		zapalio m / zapalila f / zapalilo n			zapalili m / zapalile f / zapalila n
passive past participle		zapaljen m / zapaljena f / zapaljeno n			zapaljeni m / zapaljene f / zapaljena 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.

Further reading

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