ljubakati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From ljúbiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʎubǎkati/
Hyphenation: lju‧ba‧ka‧ti

Verb

ljubàkati impf (Cyrillic spelling љуба̀кати)

(transitive) to kiss (especially excessively))
(transitive) to flirt

Conjugation

Conjugation of ljubakati

Infinitive: ljubakati		Present verbal adverb: ljubàkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ljubàkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ljubakam	ljubakaš	ljubaka	ljubakamo	ljubakate	ljubakaju
Future	Future I	ljubakat ću¹ ljubakaću	ljubakat ćeš¹ ljubakaćeš	ljubakat će¹ ljubakaće	ljubakat ćemo¹ ljubakaćemo	ljubakat ćete¹ ljubakaćete	ljubakat će¹ ljubakaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ljubakao²	bȕdēš ljubakao²	bȕdē ljubakao²	bȕdēmo ljubakali²	bȕdēte ljubakali²	bȕdū ljubakali²
Past	Perfect	ljubakao sam²	ljubakao si²	ljubakao je²	ljubakali smo²	ljubakali ste²	ljubakali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam ljubakao²	bȉo si ljubakao²	bȉo je ljubakao²	bíli smo ljubakali²	bíli ste ljubakali²	bíli su ljubakali²
	Imperfect	ljubakah	ljubakaše	ljubakaše	ljubakasmo	ljubakaste	ljubakahu
Conditional I		ljubakao bih²	ljubakao bi²	ljubakao bi²	ljubakali bismo²	ljubakali biste²	ljubakali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih ljubakao²	bȉo bi ljubakao²	bȉo bi ljubakao²	bíli bismo ljubakali²	bíli biste ljubakali²	bíli bi ljubakali²
Imperative		—	ljubakaj	—	ljubakajmo	ljubakajte	—
Active past participle		ljubakao m / ljubakala f / ljubakalo n			ljubakali m / ljubakale f / ljubakala 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

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