pomagati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pomagati. Equivalent to pomoći +‎ -ati. Cognates include Russian помогать (pomogatʹ), Polish pomagać, Ukrainian помагати (pomahaty), Belarusian памагчы (pamahčy), Czech pomáhat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pomǎːɡati/
• Hyphenation: po‧ma‧ga‧ti

Verb

pomágati impf (Cyrillic spelling пома́гати)

1. (ambitransitive) to help, aid, assist

Conjugation

Conjugation of pomagati

infinitive		pomagati
present verbal adverb		pomážūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		pomágānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		pomažem	pomažeš	pomaže	pomažemo	pomažete	pomažu
future	future I	pomagat ću1 pomagaću	pomagat ćeš1 pomagaćeš	pomagat će1 pomagaće	pomagat ćemo1 pomagaćemo	pomagat ćete1 pomagaćete	pomagat ćē1 pomagaće
	future II	bȕdēm pomagao2	bȕdēš pomagao2	bȕdē pomagao2	bȕdēmo pomagali2	bȕdēte pomagali2	bȕdū pomagali2
past	perfect	pomagao sam2	pomagao si2	pomagao je2	pomagali smo2	pomagali ste2	pomagali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam pomagao2	bȉo si pomagao2	bȉo je pomagao2	bíli smo pomagali2	bíli ste pomagali2	bíli su pomagali2
	imperfect	pomagah	pomagaše	pomagaše	pomagasmo	pomagaste	pomagahu
conditional	conditional I	pomagao bih2	pomagao bi2	pomagao bi2	pomagali bismo2	pomagali biste2	pomagali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih pomagao2	bȉo bi pomagao2	bȉo bi pomagao2	bíli bismo pomagali2	bíli biste pomagali2	bíli bi pomagali2
imperative		—	pomaži	—	pomažimo	pomažite	—
active past participle		pomagao m / pomagala f / pomagalo n			pomagali m / pomagale f / pomagala n
passive past participle		pomagan m / pomagana f / pomagano n			pomagani m / pomagane f / pomagana 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

• pripomágati

Related terms

• pòmoći pf

Further reading

• “pomagati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pomagati. Equivalent to pomóči +‎ -ati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔmàːɡati/, /pɔmaɡàːti/

Verb

pomágati or pomagáti impf or pf

1. to help

Conjugation

-ati -am (acute or AP b)
infinitive	pomágati, pomagáti
1st singular	pomágam
infinitive	pomágati, pomagáti			pomágat
supine	pomágat
verbal noun	pomáganje
	participle			converb
present	pomagajọ̄č			pomagȃje
past	pomágan			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	pomágał		pomágala, pomagȃla		pomágalo, pomagálo
dual	pomágala, pomagála		pomágali, pomagáli		pomágali, pomagáli
plural	pomágali, pomagáli		pomágale, pomagále		pomágala, pomagála
	present			imperative
1st singular	pomágam			—
2nd singular	pomágaš			pomágaj
3rd singular	pomága			—
1st dual	pomágava			pomágajva, pomagȃjva
2nd dual	pomágata			pomágajta, pomagȃjta
3rd dual	pomágata			—
1st plural	pomágamo			pomágajmo, pomagȃjmo
2nd plural	pomágate			pomágajte, pomagȃjte
3rd plural	pomágajo			—

Further reading

• “pomagati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “pomagati”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references