tepati

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *teti or *tepti. Doublet of teti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈtɛpaci/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈtɛpaci/

Verb

tepati impf

1. to beat

   Synonyms: teti, tlúci, bíti

Conjugation

Conjugation of tepati (class V)

infinitive	supine	verbal noun
tepati	tepat	tepánie

	Present			Imperative
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	teṕu	teṕevě (-va)	teṕem (-me/-my)	–	tepvě, tepěvě (-va)	tepme, tepěm (-me/-my)
2nd person	teṕeš	teṕeta	teṕete	tep, tepi	tepta, tepěta	tepte, tepěte
3rd person	teṕe	teṕeta	teṕú	tep, tepi	tepta, tepěta	tepte, tepěte

	Sigmatic aorist			Imperfect
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
1st person	tepach	tepachově (-va)	tepachom (-me/-my)	tepách	tepáchově (-va)	tepáchom (-me/-my)
2nd person	tepa	tepasta (-šta)	tepaste (-šte)	tepáše	tepášta (-sta)	tepášte (-ste)
3rd person	tepa	tepasta (-šta)	tepachu	tepáše	tepášta (-sta)	tepáchu

	L-participle			Passive participle
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
Masculine	tepal	tepala	tepali	tepán	tepána	tepáni
Feminine	tepala	tepale	tepaly	tepána	tepáně	tepány
Neuter	tepalo	tepale	tepala	tepáno	tepáně	tepána

	Nt-participle			S-participle
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
Masculine	tepě	tepiece		tepav	tepavše
Feminine	tepieci			tepavši
Neuter	tepě, tepieci			tepav, tepavši

Note: This table shows the most common forms of tepati around the 13th/14th century. See also Appendix:Old Czech verbs and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Descendants

• Czech: tepat

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “tepati”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

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