raspitati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ras- +‎ pitati. Compare Polish rozpytać, Belarusian распыта́ць (raspytácʹ), Ukrainian розпита́ти (rozpytáty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raspǐːtati/
  • Hyphenation: ras‧pi‧ta‧ti

Verb

raspítati pf (Cyrillic spelling распи́тати, imperfective raspitívati)

  1. (reflexive) to ask around, to inquire, to make inquiries

Conjugation

Conjugation of raspitati
infinitive raspitati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb raspítāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present raspitam raspitaš raspita raspitamo raspitate raspitaju
future future I raspitat ću1
raspitaću
raspitat ćeš1
raspitaćeš
raspitat će1
raspitaće
raspitat ćemo1
raspitaćemo
raspitat ćete1
raspitaćete
raspitat ćē1
raspitaće
future II bȕdēm raspitao2 bȕdēš raspitao2 bȕdē raspitao2 bȕdēmo raspitali2 bȕdēte raspitali2 bȕdū raspitali2
past perfect raspitao sam2 raspitao si2 raspitao je2 raspitali smo2 raspitali ste2 raspitali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam raspitao2 bȉo si raspitao2 bȉo je raspitao2 bíli smo raspitali2 bíli ste raspitali2 bíli su raspitali2
aorist raspitah raspita raspita raspitasmo raspitaste raspitaše
conditional conditional I raspitao bih2 raspitao bi2 raspitao bi2 raspitali bismo2 raspitali biste2 raspitali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih raspitao2 bȉo bi raspitao2 bȉo bi raspitao2 bíli bismo raspitali2 bíli biste raspitali2 bíli bi raspitali2
imperative raspitaj raspitajmo raspitajte
active past participle raspitao m / raspitala f / raspitalo n raspitali m / raspitale f / raspitala n
passive past participle raspitan m / raspitana f / raspitano n raspitani m / raspitane f / raspitana 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

  • raspitati se”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
  • Matea Birtić et al. (2012), “raspitati se”, in Školski rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [School Dictionary of the Croatian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje [Institute of the Croatian Language and Linguistics]; Školska knjiga