prespavati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

pre- +‎ spavati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prespǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧spa‧va‧ti

Verb

prespávati pf (Cyrillic spelling преспа́вати)

  1. (intransitive) to sleep over
  2. (intransitive) to oversleep (miss something by oversleeping)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prespavati
infinitive prespavati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb prespávāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present prespavam prespavaš prespava prespavamo prespavate prespavaju
future future I prespavat ću1
prespavaću
prespavat ćeš1
prespavaćeš
prespavat će1
prespavaće
prespavat ćemo1
prespavaćemo
prespavat ćete1
prespavaćete
prespavat ćē1
prespavaće
future II bȕdēm prespavao2 bȕdēš prespavao2 bȕdē prespavao2 bȕdēmo prespavali2 bȕdēte prespavali2 bȕdū prespavali2
past perfect prespavao sam2 prespavao si2 prespavao je2 prespavali smo2 prespavali ste2 prespavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam prespavao2 bȉo si prespavao2 bȉo je prespavao2 bíli smo prespavali2 bíli ste prespavali2 bíli su prespavali2
aorist prespavah prespava prespava prespavasmo prespavaste prespavaše
conditional conditional I prespavao bih2 prespavao bi2 prespavao bi2 prespavali bismo2 prespavali biste2 prespavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih prespavao2 bȉo bi prespavao2 bȉo bi prespavao2 bíli bismo prespavali2 bíli biste prespavali2 bíli bi prespavali2
imperative prespavaj prespavajmo prespavajte
active past participle prespavao m / prespavala f / prespavalo n prespavali m / prespavale f / prespavala 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

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