kucnuti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kût͡snuti/
• Hyphenation: kuc‧nu‧ti

Verb

kȕcnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏цнути)

1. (intransitive) to knock, tap, beat, strike

Conjugation

Conjugation of kucnuti

Infinitive: kucnuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: kȕcnūvši		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		kucnem	kucneš	kucne	kucnemo	kucnete	kucnu
Future	Future I	kucnut ću1 kucnuću	kucnut ćeš1 kucnućeš	kucnut će1 kucnuće	kucnut ćemo1 kucnućemo	kucnut ćete1 kucnućete	kucnut će1 kucnuće
	Future II	bȕdēm kucnuo2	bȕdēš kucnuo2	bȕdē kucnuo2	bȕdēmo kucnuli2	bȕdēte kucnuli2	bȕdū kucnuli2
Past	Perfect	kucnuo sam2	kucnuo si2	kucnuo je2	kucnuli smo2	kucnuli ste2	kucnuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kucnuo2	bȉo si kucnuo2	bȉo je kucnuo2	bíli smo kucnuli2	bíli ste kucnuli2	bíli su kucnuli2
	Aorist	kucnuh	kucnu	kucnu	kucnusmo	kucnuste	kucnuše
Conditional I		kucnuo bih2	kucnuo bi2	kucnuo bi2	kucnuli bismo2	kucnuli biste2	kucnuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kucnuo2	bȉo bi kucnuo2	bȉo bi kucnuo2	bíli bismo kucnuli2	bíli biste kucnuli2	bíli bi kucnuli2
Imperative		—	kucni	—	kucnimo	kucnite	—
Active past participle		kucnuo m / kucnula f / kucnulo n			kucnuli m / kucnule f / kucnula 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

• kȕcati impf

Further reading

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