puknuti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• pȕći (alternative infinitive)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫknǫti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûknuti/
• Hyphenation: pu‧knu‧ti

Verb

pȕknuti pf (Cyrillic spelling пу̏кнути)

1. (intransitive) to crack, break, burst, split
2. (intransitive) to puncture, rupture
3. (intransitive) to fire, go off (of a gun)
4. (intransitive) to crack, snap, click (with fingers, tongue, whip etc.)
5. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) to bang

Conjugation

Conjugation of puknuti

Infinitive: puknuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pȕkāvši / pȕknūvši		Verbal noun: puknúće
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		puknem	pukneš	pukne	puknemo	puknete	puknu
Future	Future I	puknut ću1 puknuću	puknut ćeš1 puknućeš	puknut će1 puknuće	puknut ćemo1 puknućemo	puknut ćete1 puknućete	puknut će1 puknuće
	Future II	bȕdēm pukao/puknuo2	bȕdēš pukao/puknuo2	bȕdē pukao/puknuo2	bȕdēmo pukli/puknuli2	bȕdēte pukli/puknuli2	bȕdū pukli/puknuli2
Past	Perfect	pukao/puknuo sam2	pukao/puknuo si2	pukao/puknuo je2	pukli/puknuli smo2	pukli/puknuli ste2	pukli/puknuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pukao/puknuo2	bȉo si pukao/puknuo2	bȉo je pukao/puknuo2	bíli smo pukli/puknuli2	bíli ste pukli/puknuli2	bíli su pukli/puknuli2
	Aorist	pukoh / puknuh	puče / puknu	puče / puknu	pukosmo / puknusmo	pukoste / puknuste	pukoše / puknuše
Conditional I		pukao/puknuo bih2	pukao/puknuo bi2	pukao/puknuo bi2	pukli/puknuli bismo2	pukli/puknuli biste2	pukli/puknuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pukao/puknuo2	bȉo bi pukao/puknuo2	bȉo bi pukao/puknuo2	bíli bismo pukli/puknuli2	bíli biste pukli/puknuli2	bíli bi pukli/puknuli2
Imperative		—	pukni	—	puknimo	puknite	—
Active past participle		pukao/puknuo m / pukla/puknula f / puklo/puknulo n			pukli/puknuli m / pukle/puknule f / pukla/puknula n
Passive past participle		puknut m / puknuta f / puknuto n			puknuti m / puknute f / puknuta 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:puknuti.

Derived terms

• ìspuknuti
• nàpuknuti
• prèpuknuti

Related terms

• pȕcati impf

Further reading

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