cvrkutati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Of onomatopoetic origin; compare cvrčak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʋr̩kǔtati/
• Hyphenation: cvr‧ku‧ta‧ti

Verb

cvrkùtati impf (Cyrillic spelling цврку̀тати)

1. (intransitive) to twitter, chirp
2. (intransitive) to warble (sing like a bird)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cvrkutati

Infinitive: cvrkutati		Present verbal adverb: cvrkùtajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cvrkùtānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cvrkućem	cvrkućeš	cvrkuće	cvrkućemo	cvrkućete	cvrkuću
Future	Future I	cvrkutat ću1 cvrkutaću	cvrkutat ćeš1 cvrkutaćeš	cvrkutat će1 cvrkutaće	cvrkutat ćemo1 cvrkutaćemo	cvrkutat ćete1 cvrkutaćete	cvrkutat će1 cvrkutaće
	Future II	bȕdēm cvrkutao2	bȕdēš cvrkutao2	bȕdē cvrkutao2	bȕdēmo cvrkutali2	bȕdēte cvrkutali2	bȕdū cvrkutali2
Past	Perfect	cvrkutao sam2	cvrkutao si2	cvrkutao je2	cvrkutali smo2	cvrkutali ste2	cvrkutali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam cvrkutao2	bȉo si cvrkutao2	bȉo je cvrkutao2	bíli smo cvrkutali2	bíli ste cvrkutali2	bíli su cvrkutali2
	Imperfect	cvrkutah	cvrkutaše	cvrkutaše	cvrkutasmo	cvrkutaste	cvrkutahu
Conditional I		cvrkutao bih2	cvrkutao bi2	cvrkutao bi2	cvrkutali bismo2	cvrkutali biste2	cvrkutali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih cvrkutao2	bȉo bi cvrkutao2	bȉo bi cvrkutao2	bíli bismo cvrkutali2	bíli biste cvrkutali2	bíli bi cvrkutali2
Imperative		—	cvrkući	—	cvrkućimo	cvrkućite	—
Active past participle		cvrkutao m / cvrkutala f / cvrkutalo n			cvrkutali m / cvrkutale f / cvrkutala 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.

References

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