zapadati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zǎpadati/
Hyphenation: za‧pa‧da‧ti

Verb

zàpadati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀падати)

(intransitive) to set (of Sun)
(intransitive) to fall (of snow)
(transitive, intransitive) to fall into, get into (difficulty, unfavorable situation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zapadati

Infinitive: zapadati		Present verbal adverb: zàpadajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zàpadānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zapadam	zapadaš	zapada	zapadamo	zapadate	zapadaju
Future	Future I	zapadat ću¹ zapadaću	zapadat ćeš¹ zapadaćeš	zapadat će¹ zapadaće	zapadat ćemo¹ zapadaćemo	zapadat ćete¹ zapadaćete	zapadat će¹ zapadaće
Future	Future II	budem zapadao²	budeš zapadao²	bude zapadao²	budemo zapadali²	budete zapadali²	budu zapadali²
Past	Perfect	zapadao sam²	zapadao si²	zapadao je²	zapadali smo²	zapadali ste²	zapadali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam zapadao²	bio si zapadao²	bio je zapadao²	bili smo zapadali²	bili ste zapadali²	bili su zapadali²
	Imperfect	zapadah	zapadaše	zapadaše	zapadasmo	zapadaste	zapadahu
Conditional I		zapadao bih²	zapadao bi²	zapadao bi²	zapadali bismo²	zapadali biste²	zapadali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih zapadao²	bio bi zapadao²	bio bi zapadao²	bili bismo zapadali²	bili biste zapadali²	bili bi zapadali²
Imperative		—	zapadaj	—	zapadajmo	zapadajte	—
Active past participle		zapadao m / zapadala f / zapadalo n			zapadali m / zapadale f / zapadala 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. * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

zàpasti pf