potkupiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ kupiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /potkǔːpiti/
• Hyphenation: pot‧ku‧pi‧ti

Verb

potkúpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling потку́пити)

1. (transitive) to bribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of potkupiti

Infinitive: potkupiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: potkúpīvši		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		potkupim	potkupiš	potkupi	potkupimo	potkupite	potkupe
Future	Future I	potkupit ću1 potkupiću	potkupit ćeš1 potkupićeš	potkupit će1 potkupiće	potkupit ćemo1 potkupićemo	potkupit ćete1 potkupićete	potkupit će1 potkupiće
	Future II	bȕdēm potkupio2	bȕdēš potkupio2	bȕdē potkupio2	bȕdēmo potkupili2	bȕdēte potkupili2	bȕdū potkupili2
Past	Perfect	potkupio sam2	potkupio si2	potkupio je2	potkupili smo2	potkupili ste2	potkupili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam potkupio2	bȉo si potkupio2	bȉo je potkupio2	bíli smo potkupili2	bíli ste potkupili2	bíli su potkupili2
	Aorist	potkupih	potkupi	potkupi	potkupismo	potkupiste	potkupiše
Conditional I		potkupio bih2	potkupio bi2	potkupio bi2	potkupili bismo2	potkupili biste2	potkupili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih potkupio2	bȉo bi potkupio2	bȉo bi potkupio2	bíli bismo potkupili2	bíli biste potkupili2	bíli bi potkupili2
Imperative		—	potkupi	—	potkupimo	potkupite	—
Active past participle		potkupio m / potkupila f / potkupilo n			potkupili m / potkupile f / potkupila n
Passive past participle		potkupljen m / potkupljena f / potkupljeno n			potkupljeni m / potkupljene f / potkupljena 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

• potkupljívati impf

Further reading

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