puvati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

púhati (Croatia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *puxati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǔːʋati/
Hyphenation: pu‧va‧ti

Verb

púvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу́вати) (Bosnia, Serbia)

Conjugation

Conjugation of puvati

Infinitive: puvati		Present verbal adverb: púvajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: púvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		puvam	puvaš	puva	puvamo	puvate	puvaju
Future	Future I	puvat ću¹ puvaću	puvat ćeš¹ puvaćeš	puvat će¹ puvaće	puvat ćemo¹ puvaćemo	puvat ćete¹ puvaćete	puvat će¹ puvaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm puvao²	bȕdēš puvao²	bȕdē puvao²	bȕdēmo puvali²	bȕdēte puvali²	bȕdū puvali²
Past	Perfect	puvao sam²	puvao si²	puvao je²	puvali smo²	puvali ste²	puvali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam puvao²	bȉo si puvao²	bȉo je puvao²	bíli smo puvali²	bíli ste puvali²	bíli su puvali²
	Imperfect	puvah	puvaše	puvaše	puvasmo	puvaste	puvahu
Conditional I		puvao bih²	puvao bi²	puvao bi²	puvali bismo²	puvali biste²	puvali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih puvao²	bȉo bi puvao²	bȉo bi puvao²	bíli bismo puvali²	bíli biste puvali²	bíli bi puvali²
Imperative		—	puvaj	—	puvajmo	puvajte	—
Active past participle		puvao m / puvala f / puvalo n			puvali m / puvale f / puvala 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

Related terms

púhnuti pf