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)

1. to produce a certain sound – to rustle; to pronounce the sibilants in a retracted fashion, to articulate with palatal sigmatism
2. (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 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

• šȕšnuti
• ùšuškati
• šuškétati, šuškètati
• šȗškor
• šȕškoriti
• šȕškav
• šȕštav
• šȕšnjav
• šȗšt

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