kušati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Slavic *kǫsati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kûʃati/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ša‧ti

Verb

kȕšati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏шати)

1. (transitive) to taste
2. (transitive) to try, test

Conjugation

Conjugation of kušati

Infinitive: kušati		Present verbal adverb: kȕšajūći		Past verbal adverb: kȕšāvši		Verbal noun: kȕšānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kušam	kušaš	kuša	kušamo	kušate	kušaju
Future	Future I	kušat ću1 kušaću	kušat ćeš1 kušaćeš	kušat će1 kušaće	kušat ćemo1 kušaćemo	kušat ćete1 kušaćete	kušat će1 kušaće
	Future II	bȕdēm kušao2	bȕdēš kušao2	bȕdē kušao2	bȕdēmo kušali2	bȕdēte kušali2	bȕdū kušali2
Past	Perfect	kušao sam2	kušao si2	kušao je2	kušali smo2	kušali ste2	kušali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kušao2	bȉo si kušao2	bȉo je kušao2	bíli smo kušali2	bíli ste kušali2	bíli su kušali2
	Aorist	kušah	{{{a.2s}}}	{{{a.3s}}}	{{{a.1p}}}	{{{a.2p}}}	{{{a.3p}}}
	Imperfect	kušah	kušaše	kušaše	kušasmo	kušaste	kušahu
Conditional I		kušao bih2	kušao bi2	kušao bi2	kušali bismo2	kušali biste2	kušali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kušao2	bȉo bi kušao2	bȉo bi kušao2	bíli bismo kušali2	bíli biste kušali2	bíli bi kušali2
Imperative		—	kušaj	—	kušajmo	kušajte	—
Active past participle		kušao m / kušala f / kušalo n			kušali m / kušale f / kušala n
Passive past participle		kušan m / kušana f / kušano n			kušani m / kušane f / kušana 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

• ìskušati
• pòkušati
• pròkušati

Further reading

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