uspjeti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• ùspeti (Ekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔspjeti/
• Hyphenation: us‧pje‧ti

Verb

ùspjeti pf (Cyrillic spelling у̀спјети)

1. (intransitive) to succeed, make good
2. (intransitive) to manage, pull off, achieve
3. (intransitive) to pan out, thrive, come through

Conjugation

Conjugation of uspjeti

Infinitive: uspjeti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: ùspjēvši		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		uspijem	uspiješ	uspije	uspijemo	uspijete	uspiju
Future	Future I	uspjet ću1 uspjeću	uspjet ćeš1 uspjećeš	uspjet će1 uspjeće	uspjet ćemo1 uspjećemo	uspjet ćete1 uspjećete	uspjet će1 uspjeće
	Future II	bȕdēm uspio2	bȕdēš uspio2	bȕdē uspio2	bȕdēmo uspjeli2	bȕdēte uspjeli2	bȕdū uspjeli2
Past	Perfect	uspio sam2	uspio si2	uspio je2	uspjeli smo2	uspjeli ste2	uspjeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam uspio2	bȉo si uspio2	bȉo je uspio2	bíli smo uspjeli2	bíli ste uspjeli2	bíli su uspjeli2
	Aorist	uspjeh	uspje	uspje	uspjesmo	uspjeste	uspješe
Conditional I		uspio bih2	uspio bi2	uspio bi2	uspjeli bismo2	uspjeli biste2	uspjeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih uspio2	bȉo bi uspio2	bȉo bi uspio2	bíli bismo uspjeli2	bíli biste uspjeli2	bíli bi uspjeli2
Imperative		—	uspij	—	uspijmo	uspijte	—
Active past participle		uspio m / uspjela f / uspjelo n			uspjeli m / uspjele f / uspjela 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

• uspijévati impf

Further reading

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