napustiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From na- +‎ pustiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /napǔstiti/
• Hyphenation: na‧pu‧sti‧ti

Verb

napùstiti pf (Cyrillic spelling напу̀стити)

1. (transitive) to leave (someone or something one has a relationship with)

   Prošlo je 5 godina otkako ga je žena napustila.

   5 years have passed by since his wife left him.

2. (transitive) to abandon, desert

   Napušten hram je ipak hram.

   A deserted temple is still a temple.

Conjugation

Conjugation of napustiti

Infinitive: napustiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: napùstīvši		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		napustim	napustiš	napusti	napustimo	napustite	napuste
Future	Future I	napustit ću1 napustiću	napustit ćeš1 napustićeš	napustit će1 napustiće	napustit ćemo1 napustićemo	napustit ćete1 napustićete	napustit će1 napustiće
	Future II	bȕdēm napustio2	bȕdēš napustio2	bȕdē napustio2	bȕdēmo napustili2	bȕdēte napustili2	bȕdū napustili2
Past	Perfect	napustio sam2	napustio si2	napustio je2	napustili smo2	napustili ste2	napustili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam napustio2	bȉo si napustio2	bȉo je napustio2	bíli smo napustili2	bíli ste napustili2	bíli su napustili2
	Aorist	napustih	napusti	napusti	napustismo	napustiste	napustiše
Conditional I		napustio bih2	napustio bi2	napustio bi2	napustili bismo2	napustili biste2	napustili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih napustio2	bȉo bi napustio2	bȉo bi napustio2	bíli bismo napustili2	bíli biste napustili2	bíli bi napustili2
Imperative		—	napusti	—	napustimo	napustite	—
Active past participle		napustio m / napustila f / napustilo n			napustili m / napustile f / napustila n
Passive past participle		napušten m / napuštena f / napušteno n			napušteni m / napuštene f / napuštena 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

• napúštati impf

Further reading

• “napustiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025