zapitati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ pitati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zapǐːtati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧pi‧ta‧ti

Verb

zapítati pf (Cyrillic spelling запи́тати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to ask, question

Conjugation

Conjugation of zapitati
infinitive zapitati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb zapítāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zapitam zapitaš zapita zapitamo zapitate zapitaju
future future I zapitat ću1
zapitaću
zapitat ćeš1
zapitaćeš
zapitat će1
zapitaće
zapitat ćemo1
zapitaćemo
zapitat ćete1
zapitaćete
zapitat ćē1
zapitaće
future II bȕdēm zapitao2 bȕdēš zapitao2 bȕdē zapitao2 bȕdēmo zapitali2 bȕdēte zapitali2 bȕdū zapitali2
past perfect zapitao sam2 zapitao si2 zapitao je2 zapitali smo2 zapitali ste2 zapitali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zapitao2 bȉo si zapitao2 bȉo je zapitao2 bíli smo zapitali2 bíli ste zapitali2 bíli su zapitali2
aorist zapitah zapita zapita zapitasmo zapitaste zapitaše
conditional conditional I zapitao bih2 zapitao bi2 zapitao bi2 zapitali bismo2 zapitali biste2 zapitali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zapitao2 bȉo bi zapitao2 bȉo bi zapitao2 bíli bismo zapitali2 bíli biste zapitali2 bíli bi zapitali2
imperative zapitaj zapitajmo zapitajte
active past participle zapitao m / zapitala f / zapitalo n zapitali m / zapitale f / zapitala n
passive past participle zapitan m / zapitana f / zapitano n zapitani m / zapitane f / zapitana 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

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