tepati

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *teti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛpacɪ]

Verb

tepati

1. to beat, throb

Further reading

• tepati in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tepati in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *teti (“to beat”) (Russian тепти́ (teptí), Czech tepati), Lithuanian tepti. Akin to tȅpsti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têpati/
• Hyphenation: te‧pa‧ti

Verb

tȅpati impf (Cyrillic spelling те̏пати)

1. (intransitive) to babble (of a baby)
2. (intransitive, with dative) to use baby talk, coo
3. (reflexive, Torlakian) to fight
   • 2005, Kulin Ban, Žali, Zare, da žalimo:

     pa će pređem Vardar vodu, Vardar vodu băš golemu,
     će se tepam s tija Turci, s tija Turci Arnauti.

     then I will cross the Vardar water, the Vardar water truly wide,
     I will fight with those Turks, with those Turk Arnauts.

Conjugation

Conjugation of tepati

Infinitive: tepati		Present verbal adverb: tȅpajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: tȅpānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		tepam	tepaš	tepa	tepamo	tepate	tepaju
Future	Future I	tepat ću1 tepaću	tepat ćeš1 tepaćeš	tepat će1 tepaće	tepat ćemo1 tepaćemo	tepat ćete1 tepaćete	tepat će1 tepaće
	Future II	bȕdēm tepao2	bȕdēš tepao2	bȕdē tepao2	bȕdēmo tepali2	bȕdēte tepali2	bȕdū tepali2
Past	Perfect	tepao sam2	tepao si2	tepao je2	tepali smo2	tepali ste2	tepali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam tepao2	bȉo si tepao2	bȉo je tepao2	bíli smo tepali2	bíli ste tepali2	bíli su tepali2
	Imperfect	tepah	tepaše	tepaše	tepasmo	tepaste	tepahu
Conditional I		tepao bih2	tepao bi2	tepao bi2	tepali bismo2	tepali biste2	tepali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih tepao2	bȉo bi tepao2	bȉo bi tepao2	bíli bismo tepali2	bíli biste tepali2	bíli bi tepali2
Imperative		—	tepaj	—	tepajmo	tepajte	—
Active past participle		tepao m / tepala f / tepalo n			tepali m / tepale f / tepala 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

• “tepati” in Hrvatski jezični portal