kapirati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From German kapieren.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /kapǐːrati/
Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧ra‧ti

Verb edit

kapírati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling капи́рати)

(informal, colloquial) to understand, comprehend

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of kapirati

Infinitive: kapirati		Present verbal adverb: kapirajući		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kapirānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kapiram	kapiraš	kapira	kapiramo	kapirate	kapiraju
Future	Future I	kapirat ću¹ kapiraću	kapirat ćeš¹ kapiraćeš	kapirat će¹ kapiraće	kapirat ćemo¹ kapiraćemo	kapirat ćete¹ kapiraćete	kapirat će¹ kapiraće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm kapirao²	bȕdēš kapirao²	bȕdē kapirao²	bȕdēmo kapirali²	bȕdēte kapirali²	bȕdū kapirali²
Past	Perfect	kapirao sam²	kapirao si²	kapirao je²	kapirali smo²	kapirali ste²	kapirali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam kapirao²	bȉo si kapirao²	bȉo je kapirao²	bíli smo kapirali²	bíli ste kapirali²	bíli su kapirali²
	Imperfect	kapirah	kapiraše	kapiraše	kapirasmo	kapiraste	kapirahu
Conditional I		kapirao bih²	kapirao bi²	kapirao bi²	kapirali bismo²	kapirali biste²	kapirali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih kapirao²	bȉo bi kapirao²	bȉo bi kapirao²	bíli bismo kapirali²	bíli biste kapirali²	bíli bi kapirali²
Imperative		—	kapiraj	—	kapirajmo	kapirajte	—
Active past participle		kapirao m / kapirala f / kapiralo n			kapirali m / kapirale f / kapirala n
Passive past participle		kapiran m / kapirana f / kapirano n			kapirani m / kapirane f / kapirana 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 edit

“kapirati” in Hrvatski jezični portal