liptati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• lìptjeti, lìpteti (alternative infinitive)

Etymology

Of expressive/onomatopoetic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǐptati/
• Hyphenation: lip‧ta‧ti

Verb

lìptati impf (Cyrillic spelling лѝптати)

1. (intransitive) to flow, pour strongly (of blood)

Conjugation

Conjugation of liptati

Infinitive: liptati		Present verbal adverb: lìptajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lìptānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		lipćem	lipćeš	lipće	lipćemo	lipćete	lipću
Future	Future I	liptat ću1 liptaću	liptat ćeš1 liptaćeš	liptat će1 liptaće	liptat ćemo1 liptaćemo	liptat ćete1 liptaćete	liptat će1 liptaće
	Future II	bȕdēm liptao2	bȕdēš liptao2	bȕdē liptao2	bȕdēmo liptali2	bȕdēte liptali2	bȕdū liptali2
Past	Perfect	liptao sam2	liptao si2	liptao je2	liptali smo2	liptali ste2	liptali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam liptao2	bȉo si liptao2	bȉo je liptao2	bíli smo liptali2	bíli ste liptali2	bíli su liptali2
	Imperfect	liptah	liptaše	liptaše	liptasmo	liptaste	liptahu
Conditional I		liptao bih2	liptao bi2	liptao bi2	liptali bismo2	liptali biste2	liptali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih liptao2	bȉo bi liptao2	bȉo bi liptao2	bíli bismo liptali2	bíli biste liptali2	bíli bi liptali2
Imperative		—	lipći	—	lipćimo	lipćite	—
Active past participle		liptao m / liptala f / liptalo n			liptali m / liptale f / liptala 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.

References

• “liptati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024