propadati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pro- +‎ padati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prǒpadati/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧pa‧da‧ti

Verb

pròpadati impf (Cyrillic spelling про̀падати)

  1. (intransitive) to fall through, fall into, sink
  2. (intransitive) to collapse
  3. (intransitive) to be ruined (+ figuratively)

Conjugation

Conjugation of propadati
infinitive propadati
present verbal adverb pròpadajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pròpadānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present propadam propadaš propada propadamo propadate propadaju
future future I propadat ću1
propadaću
propadat ćeš1
propadaćeš
propadat će1
propadaće
propadat ćemo1
propadaćemo
propadat ćete1
propadaćete
propadat ćē1
propadaće
future II bȕdēm propadao2 bȕdēš propadao2 bȕdē propadao2 bȕdēmo propadali2 bȕdēte propadali2 bȕdū propadali2
past perfect propadao sam2 propadao si2 propadao je2 propadali smo2 propadali ste2 propadali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam propadao2 bȉo si propadao2 bȉo je propadao2 bíli smo propadali2 bíli ste propadali2 bíli su propadali2
imperfect propadah propadaše propadaše propadasmo propadaste propadahu
conditional conditional I propadao bih2 propadao bi2 propadao bi2 propadali bismo2 propadali biste2 propadali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih propadao2 bȉo bi propadao2 bȉo bi propadao2 bíli bismo propadali2 bíli biste propadali2 bíli bi propadali2
imperative propadaj propadajmo propadajte
active past participle propadao m / propadala f / propadalo n propadali m / propadale f / propadala 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

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