pucati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫkati. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûtsati/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ca‧ti

Verb

pȕcati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу̏цати, perfective pȕknuti)

1. (intransitive) to crack, break, burst, split
2. (intransitive) to puncture, rupture
3. (intransitive) to shoot, fire (from a gun, or with ball in sports)

   pucati na gol

4. (intransitive) to fire, go off (of a gun)

   pucati iz pištolja

5. (intransitive) to crack, snap, click (with fingers, tongue, whip etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pucati

infinitive		pucati
present verbal adverb		pȕcajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		pȕcānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		pucam	pucaš	puca	pucamo	pucate	pucaju
future	future I	pucat ću1 pucaću	pucat ćeš1 pucaćeš	pucat će1 pucaće	pucat ćemo1 pucaćemo	pucat ćete1 pucaćete	pucat ćē1 pucaće
	future II	bȕdēm pucao2	bȕdēš pucao2	bȕdē pucao2	bȕdēmo pucali2	bȕdēte pucali2	bȕdū pucali2
past	perfect	pucao sam2	pucao si2	pucao je2	pucali smo2	pucali ste2	pucali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam pucao2	bȉo si pucao2	bȉo je pucao2	bíli smo pucali2	bíli ste pucali2	bíli su pucali2
	imperfect	pucah	pucaše	pucaše	pucasmo	pucaste	pucahu
conditional	conditional I	pucao bih2	pucao bi2	pucao bi2	pucali bismo2	pucali biste2	pucali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih pucao2	bȉo bi pucao2	bȉo bi pucao2	bíli bismo pucali2	bíli biste pucali2	bíli bi pucali2
imperative		—	pucaj	—	pucajmo	pucajte	—
active past participle		pucao m / pucala f / pucalo n			pucali m / pucale f / pucala 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

• ìspucati
• nàpucati

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Adapted borrowing of German putzen +‎ -ati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûtsati/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ca‧ti

Verb

pȕcati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу̏цати)

1. (ambitransitive) to clean

Conjugation

Conjugation of pucati

infinitive		pucati
present verbal adverb		pȕcajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		pȕcānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		pucam	pucaš	puca	pucamo	pucate	pucaju
future	future I	pucat ću1 pucaću	pucat ćeš1 pucaćeš	pucat će1 pucaće	pucat ćemo1 pucaćemo	pucat ćete1 pucaćete	pucat ćē1 pucaće
	future II	bȕdēm pucao2	bȕdēš pucao2	bȕdē pucao2	bȕdēmo pucali2	bȕdēte pucali2	bȕdū pucali2
past	perfect	pucao sam2	pucao si2	pucao je2	pucali smo2	pucali ste2	pucali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam pucao2	bȉo si pucao2	bȉo je pucao2	bíli smo pucali2	bíli ste pucali2	bíli su pucali2
	imperfect	pucah	pucaše	pucaše	pucasmo	pucaste	pucahu
conditional	conditional I	pucao bih2	pucao bi2	pucao bi2	pucali bismo2	pucali biste2	pucali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih pucao2	bȉo bi pucao2	bȉo bi pucao2	bíli bismo pucali2	bíli biste pucali2	bíli bi pucali2
imperative		—	pucaj	—	pucajmo	pucajte	—
active past participle		pucao m / pucala f / pucalo n			pucali m / pucale f / pucala 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.

Further reading

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