kapirati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German kapieren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kapǐːrati/
• Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧ra‧ti

Verb

kapírati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling капи́рати)

1. (informal, colloquial) to understand, comprehend

Conjugation

Conjugation of kapirati

Infinitive: kapirati		Present verbal adverb: kapirajući		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kapirānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kapiram	kapiraš	kapira	kapiramo	kapirate	kapiraju
Future	Future I	kapirat ću1 kapiraću	kapirat ćeš1 kapiraćeš	kapirat će1 kapiraće	kapirat ćemo1 kapiraćemo	kapirat ćete1 kapiraćete	kapirat će1 kapiraće
	Future II	bȕdēm kapirao2	bȕdēš kapirao2	bȕdē kapirao2	bȕdēmo kapirali2	bȕdēte kapirali2	bȕdū kapirali2
Past	Perfect	kapirao sam2	kapirao si2	kapirao je2	kapirali smo2	kapirali ste2	kapirali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kapirao2	bȉo si kapirao2	bȉo je kapirao2	bíli smo kapirali2	bíli ste kapirali2	bíli su kapirali2
	Imperfect	kapirah	kapiraše	kapiraše	kapirasmo	kapiraste	kapirahu
Conditional I		kapirao bih2	kapirao bi2	kapirao bi2	kapirali bismo2	kapirali biste2	kapirali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kapirao2	bȉo bi kapirao2	bȉo bi kapirao2	bíli bismo kapirali2	bíli biste kapirali2	bíli bi kapirali2
Imperative		—	kapiraj	—	kapirajmo	kapirajte	—
Active past participle		kapirao m / kapirala f / kapiralo n			kapirali m / kapirale f / kapirala n
Passive past participle		kapiran m / kapirana f / kapirano n			kapirani m / kapirane f / kapirana 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.

References

• “kapirati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024