treperiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *treperiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trepěriti/
• Hyphenation: tre‧pe‧ri‧ti

Verb

trepèriti impf (Cyrillic spelling трепѐрити)

1. (intransitive) to tremble, shake, vibrate, quiver
2. (intransitive) to flicker, twinkle

Conjugation

Conjugation of treperiti

Infinitive: treperiti		Present verbal adverb: trepèrēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trepèrēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		treperim	treperiš	treperi	treperimo	treperite	trepere
Future	Future I	treperit ću1 treperiću	treperit ćeš1 treperićeš	treperit će1 treperiće	treperit ćemo1 treperićemo	treperit ćete1 treperićete	treperit će1 treperiće
	Future II	bȕdēm treperio2	bȕdēš treperio2	bȕdē treperio2	bȕdēmo treperili2	bȕdēte treperili2	bȕdū treperili2
Past	Perfect	treperio sam2	treperio si2	treperio je2	treperili smo2	treperili ste2	treperili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam treperio2	bȉo si treperio2	bȉo je treperio2	bíli smo treperili2	bíli ste treperili2	bíli su treperili2
	Imperfect	treperah	treperaše	treperaše	treperasmo	treperaste	treperahu
Conditional I		treperio bih2	treperio bi2	treperio bi2	treperili bismo2	treperili biste2	treperili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih treperio2	bȉo bi treperio2	bȉo bi treperio2	bíli bismo treperili2	bíli biste treperili2	bíli bi treperili2
Imperative		—	treperi	—	treperimo	treperite	—
Active past participle		treperio m / treperila f / treperilo n			treperili m / treperile f / treperila 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

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