podmazati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ mazati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒdmazati/
• Hyphenation: pod‧ma‧za‧ti

Verb

pòdmazati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀дмазати)

1. (transitive) to lubricate, oil
2. (transitive, figuratively) to grease the palm (of), grease palms, i.e. to bribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of podmazati

Infinitive: podmazati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòdmazāvši		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		podmažem	podmažeš	podmaže	podmažemo	podmažete	podmažu
Future	Future I	podmazat ću1 podmazaću	podmazat ćeš1 podmazaćeš	podmazat će1 podmazaće	podmazat ćemo1 podmazaćemo	podmazat ćete1 podmazaćete	podmazat će1 podmazaće
	Future II	bȕdēm podmazao2	bȕdēš podmazao2	bȕdē podmazao2	bȕdēmo podmazali2	bȕdēte podmazali2	bȕdū podmazali2
Past	Perfect	podmazao sam2	podmazao si2	podmazao je2	podmazali smo2	podmazali ste2	podmazali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam podmazao2	bȉo si podmazao2	bȉo je podmazao2	bíli smo podmazali2	bíli ste podmazali2	bíli su podmazali2
	Aorist	podmazah	podmaza	podmaza	podmazasmo	podmazaste	podmazaše
Conditional I		podmazao bih2	podmazao bi2	podmazao bi2	podmazali bismo2	podmazali biste2	podmazali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih podmazao2	bȉo bi podmazao2	bȉo bi podmazao2	bíli bismo podmazali2	bíli biste podmazali2	bíli bi podmazali2
Imperative		—	podmaži	—	podmažimo	podmažite	—
Active past participle		podmazao m / podmazala f / podmazalo n			podmazali m / podmazale f / podmazala n
Passive past participle		podmazan m / podmazana f / podmazano n			podmazani m / podmazane f / podmazana 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

• podmazívati impf

References

• “podmazati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024