pljeskati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plěskati, *pleskati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʎêskati/
• Hyphenation: plje‧ska‧ti

Verb

pljȅskati impf (Cyrillic spelling пље̏скати)

1. (intransitive) to applaud, clap
2. (intransitive) to slap the surface of something with something flat (e.g. palm against the water)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pljeskati

Infinitive: pljeskati		Present verbal adverb: pljȅskajūći / pljéšćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pljȅskānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		plješćem	plješćeš	plješće	plješćemo	plješćete	plješću
Future	Future I	pljeskat ću1 pljeskaću	pljeskat ćeš1 pljeskaćeš	pljeskat će1 pljeskaće	pljeskat ćemo1 pljeskaćemo	pljeskat ćete1 pljeskaćete	pljeskat će1 pljeskaće
	Future II	bȕdēm pljeskao2	bȕdēš pljeskao2	bȕdē pljeskao2	bȕdēmo pljeskali2	bȕdēte pljeskali2	bȕdū pljeskali2
Past	Perfect	pljeskao sam2	pljeskao si2	pljeskao je2	pljeskali smo2	pljeskali ste2	pljeskali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pljeskao2	bȉo si pljeskao2	bȉo je pljeskao2	bíli smo pljeskali2	bíli ste pljeskali2	bíli su pljeskali2
	Imperfect	pljeskah	pljeskaše	pljeskaše	pljeskasmo	pljeskaste	pljeskahu
Conditional I		pljeskao bih2	pljeskao bi2	pljeskao bi2	pljeskali bismo2	pljeskali biste2	pljeskali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pljeskao2	bȉo bi pljeskao2	bȉo bi pljeskao2	bíli bismo pljeskali2	bíli biste pljeskali2	bíli bi pljeskali2
Imperative		—	plješći	—	plješćimo	plješćite	—
Active past participle		pljeskao m / pljeskala f / pljeskalo n			pljeskali m / pljeskale f / pljeskala 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.

Further reading

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