potopiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *potopiti. Compare Czech potopit.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /potǒpiti/
  • Hyphenation: po‧to‧pi‧ti

Verb

potòpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling пото̀пити)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to drown, sink
    Atlantis, potopljeni grad ― Atlantis, the drowned city
  2. (transitive) to moisten, soak, dip
  3. (transitive) to flood

Conjugation
Conjugation of potopiti
Infinitive: potopiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: potòpīvši Verbal noun: —
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present potopim potopiš potopi potopimo potopite potope
Future Future I potopit ću1
potopiću		 potopit ćeš1
potopićeš		 potopit će1
potopiće		 potopit ćemo1
potopićemo		 potopit ćete1
potopićete		 potopit će1
potopiće
Future II bȕdēm potopio2 bȕdēš potopio2 bȕdē potopio2 bȕdēmo potopili2 bȕdēte potopili2 bȕdū potopili2
Past Perfect potopio sam2 potopio si2 potopio je2 potopili smo2 potopili ste2 potopili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam potopio2 bȉo si potopio2 bȉo je potopio2 bíli smo potopili2 bíli ste potopili2 bíli su potopili2
Aorist potopih potopi potopi potopismo potopiste potopiše
Conditional I potopio bih2 potopio bi2 potopio bi2 potopili bismo2 potopili biste2 potopili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih potopio2 bȉo bi potopio2 bȉo bi potopio2 bíli bismo potopili2 bíli biste potopili2 bíli bi potopili2
Imperative — potopi — potopimo potopite —
Active past participle potopio m / potopila f / potopilo n potopili m / potopile f / potopila n
Passive past participle potopljen m / potopljena f / potopljeno n potopljeni m / potopljene f / potopljena 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.

Further reading
  • “potopiti” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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