kukati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kukati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kûkati/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ka‧ti

Verb

kȕkati impf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏кати)

1. (intransitive) to lament, wail
2. (intransitive) to complain, whine, moan
3. (intransitive) to cuckoo

Conjugation

Conjugation of kukati

Infinitive: kukati		Present verbal adverb: kȕkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kȕkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kukam	kukaš	kuka	kukamo	kukate	kukaju
Future	Future I	kukat ću1 kukaću	kukat ćeš1 kukaćeš	kukat će1 kukaće	kukat ćemo1 kukaćemo	kukat ćete1 kukaćete	kukat će1 kukaće
	Future II	bȕdēm kukao2	bȕdēš kukao2	bȕdē kukao2	bȕdēmo kukali2	bȕdēte kukali2	bȕdū kukali2
Past	Perfect	kukao sam2	kukao si2	kukao je2	kukali smo2	kukali ste2	kukali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kukao2	bȉo si kukao2	bȉo je kukao2	bíli smo kukali2	bíli ste kukali2	bíli su kukali2
	Imperfect	kukah	kukaše	kukaše	kukasmo	kukaste	kukahu
Conditional I		kukao bih2	kukao bi2	kukao bi2	kukali bismo2	kukali biste2	kukali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kukao2	bȉo bi kukao2	bȉo bi kukao2	bíli bismo kukali2	bíli biste kukali2	bíli bi kukali2
Imperative		—	kukaj	—	kukajmo	kukajte	—
Active past participle		kukao m / kukala f / kukalo n			kukali m / kukale f / kukala 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

• pròkukati
• zàkukati

Further reading

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