šuškati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

šúštati, šùšljati

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, compare Russian шушу́каться (šušúkatʹsja), Ukrainian шушу́кати (šušúkaty), Belarusian шушу́каць (šušúkacʹ), шу́шкаць (šúškacʹ), Bulgarian шушу́кам (šušúkam), Macedonian шушка (šuška), Slovene šȗškati (tonal orthography), Czech šuškat.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃûʃkati/

Verb

šȕškati impf (Cyrillic spelling шу̏шкати)

to produce a certain sound – to rustle; to pronounce the sibilants in a retracted fashion, to articulate with palatal sigmatism
(figurative) to whisper, to say with the hand over the mouth

Conjugation

Conjugation of šuškati

Infinitive: šuškati		Present verbal adverb: šȕškajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: šȕškānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		šȕškām	šȕškaš	šȕška	šȕškamo	šȕškate	šȕškaju
Future	Future I	šȕškat ću¹ šȕškaću	šȕškat ćeš¹ šȕškaćeš	šȕškat će¹ šȕškaće	šȕškat ćemo¹ šȕškaćemo	šȕškat ćete¹ šȕškaćete	šȕškat će¹ šȕškaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm šȕškao²	bȕdēš šȕškao²	bȕdē šȕškao²	bȕdēmo šȕškali²	bȕdēte šȕškali²	bȕdū šȕškali²
Past	Perfect	šȕškao sam²	šȕškao si²	šȕškao je²	šȕškali smo²	šȕškali ste²	šȕškali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam šȕškao²	bȉo si šȕškao²	bȉo je šȕškao²	bíli smo šȕškali²	bíli ste šȕškali²	bíli su šȕškali²
	Imperfect	šȕškah	šȕškaše	šȕškaše	šȕškasmo	šȕškaste	šȕškahu
Conditional I		šȕškao bih²	šȕškao bi²	šȕškao bi²	šȕškali bismo²	šȕškali biste²	šȕškali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih šȕškao²	bȉo bi šȕškao²	bȉo bi šȕškao²	bíli bismo šȕškali²	bíli biste šȕškali²	bíli bi šȕškali²
Imperative		—	šȕškaj	—	šȕškajmo	šȕškajte	—
Active past participle		šȕškao m / šȕškala f / šȕškalo n			šȕškali m / šȕškale f / šȕškala n
Passive past participle		šȕškan m / šȕškana f / šȕškano n			šȕškani m / šȕškane f / šȕškana 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.

Derived terms

References

“šuškati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
“šuškati”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 6, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1976, published 1990, page 1035