malaksati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft, gentle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /malǎksati/
• Hyphenation: ma‧lak‧sa‧ti

Verb

malàksati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling мала̀ксати)

1. (intransitive) to become exhausted, worn out
2. (intransitive) to let up, ease up

Conjugation

Conjugation of malaksati

Infinitive: malaksati		Present verbal adverb: malàksajūći		Past verbal adverb: malàksāvši		Verbal noun: malàksānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		malaksam/malakšem	malaksaš/malakšeš	malaksa/malakše	malaksamo/malakšemo	malaksate/malakšete	malaksaju/malakšu
Future	Future I	malaksat ću1 malaksaću	malaksat ćeš1 malaksaćeš	malaksat će1 malaksaće	malaksat ćemo1 malaksaćemo	malaksat ćete1 malaksaćete	malaksat će1 malaksaće
	Future II	bȕdēm malaksao2	bȕdēš malaksao2	bȕdē malaksao2	bȕdēmo malaksali2	bȕdēte malaksali2	bȕdū malaksali2
Past	Perfect	malaksao sam2	malaksao si2	malaksao je2	malaksali smo2	malaksali ste2	malaksali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam malaksao2	bȉo si malaksao2	bȉo je malaksao2	bíli smo malaksali2	bíli ste malaksali2	bíli su malaksali2
	Aorist	malaksah	malaksa	malaksa	malaksasmo	malaksaste	malaksaše
	Imperfect	malaksah	malaksaše	malaksaše	malaksasmo	malaksaste	malaksahu
Conditional I		malaksao bih2	malaksao bi2	malaksao bi2	malaksali bismo2	malaksali biste2	malaksali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih malaksao2	bȉo bi malaksao2	bȉo bi malaksao2	bíli bismo malaksali2	bíli biste malaksali2	bíli bi malaksali2
Imperative		—	malakši	—	malakšimo	malakšite	—
Active past participle		malaksao m / malaksala f / malaksalo n			malaksali m / malaksale f / malaksala 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

• malaksávati impf, smalàksati pf

References

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