postupati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ stupati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /postǔːpati/
Hyphenation: po‧stu‧pa‧ti

Verb

postúpati impf (Cyrillic spelling посту́пати)

(intransitive) to act, proceed
postupati prema nekome, postupati s nekim — to treat, to act toward somebody

postupati s nečim — to handle, operate

Conjugation

Conjugation of postupati

Infinitive: postupati		Present verbal adverb: postúpajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: postúpānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		postupam	postupaš	postupa	postupamo	postupate	postupaju
Future	Future I	postupat ću¹ postupaću	postupat ćeš¹ postupaćeš	postupat će¹ postupaće	postupat ćemo¹ postupaćemo	postupat ćete¹ postupaćete	postupat će¹ postupaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm postupao²	bȕdēš postupao²	bȕdē postupao²	bȕdēmo postupali²	bȕdēte postupali²	bȕdū postupali²
Past	Perfect	postupao sam²	postupao si²	postupao je²	postupali smo²	postupali ste²	postupali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam postupao²	bȉo si postupao²	bȉo je postupao²	bíli smo postupali²	bíli ste postupali²	bíli su postupali²
	Imperfect	postupah	postupaše	postupaše	postupasmo	postupaste	postupahu
Conditional I		postupao bih²	postupao bi²	postupao bi²	postupali bismo²	postupali biste²	postupali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih postupao²	bȉo bi postupao²	bȉo bi postupao²	bíli bismo postupali²	bíli biste postupali²	bíli bi postupali²
Imperative		—	postupaj	—	postupajmo	postupajte	—
Active past participle		postupao m / postupala f / postupalo n			postupali m / postupale f / postupala 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

postúpiti pf