psovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsovati, from *pьsъ (“dog”), the original sense being “to treat like a dog, to talk to like a dog”.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /psǒʋati/
Hyphenation: pso‧va‧ti

Verb

psòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling псо̀вати)

(intransitive) to swear, curse, cuss

Conjugation

Conjugation of *psovati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		psovati
present verbal adverb		psȕjūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		psòvānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		psujem	psuješ	psuje	psujemo	psujete	psuju
future	future I	psovat ću¹ psovaću	psovat ćeš¹ psovaćeš	psovat će¹ psovaće	psovat ćemo¹ psovaćemo	psovat ćete¹ psovaćete	psovat ćē¹ psovaće
future	future II	bȕdēm psovao²	bȕdēš psovao²	bȕdē psovao²	bȕdēmo psovali²	bȕdēte psovali²	bȕdū psovali²
past	perfect	psovao sam²	psovao si²	psovao je²	psovali smo²	psovali ste²	psovali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam psovao²	bȉo si psovao²	bȉo je psovao²	bíli smo psovali²	bíli ste psovali²	bíli su psovali²
	imperfect	psovah	psovaše	psovaše	psovasmo	psovaste	psovahu
conditional	conditional I	psovao bih²	psovao bi²	psovao bi²	psovali bismo²	psovali biste²	psovali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih psovao²	bȉo bi psovao²	bȉo bi psovao²	bíli bismo psovali²	bíli biste psovali²	bíli bi psovali²
imperative		—	psuj	—	psujmo	psujte	—
active past participle		psovao m / psovala f / psovalo n			psovali m / psovale f / psovala n
passive past participle		psovan m / psovana f / psovano n			psovani m / psovane f / psovana 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.