sklapati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sklǎːpati/
• Hyphenation: skla‧pa‧ti

Verb

sklápati impf (Cyrillic spelling скла́пати)

1. (transitive) to fold, fold up (foldable object, hands etc.)
2. (transitive) to close (eyes, book etc.)
3. (transitive) to assemble (object from pieces)
4. (transitive) to conclude, make contract/agreement

Conjugation

Conjugation of sklapati

Infinitive: sklapati		Present verbal adverb: sklápajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sklápānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sklapam	sklapaš	sklapa	sklapamo	sklapate	sklapaju
Future	Future I	sklapat ću1 sklapaću	sklapat ćeš1 sklapaćeš	sklapat će1 sklapaće	sklapat ćemo1 sklapaćemo	sklapat ćete1 sklapaćete	sklapat će1 sklapaće
	Future II	bȕdēm sklapao2	bȕdēš sklapao2	bȕdē sklapao2	bȕdēmo sklapali2	bȕdēte sklapali2	bȕdū sklapali2
Past	Perfect	sklapao sam2	sklapao si2	sklapao je2	sklapali smo2	sklapali ste2	sklapali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sklapao2	bȉo si sklapao2	bȉo je sklapao2	bíli smo sklapali2	bíli ste sklapali2	bíli su sklapali2
	Imperfect	sklapah	sklapaše	sklapaše	sklapasmo	sklapaste	sklapahu
Conditional I		sklapao bih2	sklapao bi2	sklapao bi2	sklapali bismo2	sklapali biste2	sklapali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sklapao2	bȉo bi sklapao2	bȉo bi sklapao2	bíli bismo sklapali2	bíli biste sklapali2	bíli bi sklapali2
Imperative		—	sklapaj	—	sklapajmo	sklapajte	—
Active past participle		sklapao m / sklapala f / sklapalo n			sklapali m / sklapale f / sklapala n
Passive past participle		sklapan m / sklapana f / sklapano n			sklapani m / sklapane f / sklapana 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

• sklòpiti pf