lipsati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• lipcati

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek λείπω (leípō, “to be missing, to lack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lîpsati/
• Hyphenation: lip‧sa‧ti

Verb

lȉpsati pf (Cyrillic spelling ли̏псати)

1. (intransitive) to die (of horse or bovine)

   Ne lipši magarče, dok trava naraste. ― Don't die, donkey, until the grass grows.

Conjugation

Conjugation of lipsati

Infinitive: lipsati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: lȉpsāvši		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		lipšem	lipšeš	lipše	lipšemo	lipšete	lipšu
Future	Future I	lipsat ću1 lipsaću	lipsat ćeš1 lipsaćeš	lipsat će1 lipsaće	lipsat ćemo1 lipsaćemo	lipsat ćete1 lipsaćete	lipsat će1 lipsaće
	Future II	bȕdēm lipsao2	bȕdēš lipsao2	bȕdē lipsao2	bȕdēmo lipsali2	bȕdēte lipsali2	bȕdū lipsali2
Past	Perfect	lipsao sam2	lipsao si2	lipsao je2	lipsali smo2	lipsali ste2	lipsali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam lipsao2	bȉo si lipsao2	bȉo je lipsao2	bíli smo lipsali2	bíli ste lipsali2	bíli su lipsali2
	Aorist	lipsah	lipsa	lipsa	lipsasmo	lipsaste	lipsaše
Conditional I		lipsao bih2	lipsao bi2	lipsao bi2	lipsali bismo2	lipsali biste2	lipsali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih lipsao2	bȉo bi lipsao2	bȉo bi lipsao2	bíli bismo lipsali2	bíli biste lipsali2	bíli bi lipsali2
Imperative		—	lipši	—	lipšimo	lipšite	—
Active past participle		lipsao m / lipsala f / lipsalo n			lipsali m / lipsale f / lipsala 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

• lipsávati impf

References

• “lipsati” in Hrvatski jezični portal