zjapiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Cognate with English gape

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zjǎːpiti/
Hyphenation: zja‧pi‧ti

Verb

zjápiti impf (Cyrillic spelling зја́пити)

(intransitive) to be wide open; gape

Conjugation

Conjugation of zjapiti

Infinitive: zjapiti		Present verbal adverb: zjápēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zjápljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zjapim	zjapiš	zjapi	zjapimo	zjapite	zjape
Future	Future I	zjapit ću¹ zjapiću	zjapit ćeš¹ zjapićeš	zjapit će¹ zjapiće	zjapit ćemo¹ zjapićemo	zjapit ćete¹ zjapićete	zjapit će¹ zjapiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm zjapio²	bȕdēš zjapio²	bȕdē zjapio²	bȕdēmo zjapili²	bȕdēte zjapili²	bȕdū zjapili²
Past	Perfect	zjapio sam²	zjapio si²	zjapio je²	zjapili smo²	zjapili ste²	zjapili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam zjapio²	bȉo si zjapio²	bȉo je zjapio²	bíli smo zjapili²	bíli ste zjapili²	bíli su zjapili²
	Imperfect	zjapljah	zjapljaše	zjapljaše	zjapljasmo	zjapljaste	zjapljahu
Conditional I		zjapio bih²	zjapio bi²	zjapio bi²	zjapili bismo²	zjapili biste²	zjapili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih zjapio²	bȉo bi zjapio²	bȉo bi zjapio²	bíli bismo zjapili²	bíli biste zjapili²	bíli bi zjapili²
Imperative		—	zjapi	—	zjapimo	zjapite	—
Active past participle		zjapio m / zjapila f / zjapilo n			zjapili m / zjapile f / zjapila 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.

Related terms

zjȁpnuti pf