rukovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rûkoʋati/
• Hyphenation: ru‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

rȕkovati impf (Cyrillic spelling ру̏ковати)

1. (intransitive, with instrumental) to handle, manage, operate
2. (reflexive) to shake hands

Conjugation

Conjugation of rukovati

Infinitive: rukovati		Present verbal adverb: rȕkujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: rȕkovānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		rukujem	rukuješ	rukuje	rukujemo	rukujete	rukuju
Future	Future I	rukovat ću1 rukovaću	rukovat ćeš1 rukovaćeš	rukovat će1 rukovaće	rukovat ćemo1 rukovaćemo	rukovat ćete1 rukovaćete	rukovat će1 rukovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm rukovao2	bȕdēš rukovao2	bȕdē rukovao2	bȕdēmo rukovali2	bȕdēte rukovali2	bȕdū rukovali2
Past	Perfect	rukovao sam2	rukovao si2	rukovao je2	rukovali smo2	rukovali ste2	rukovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam rukovao2	bȉo si rukovao2	bȉo je rukovao2	bíli smo rukovali2	bíli ste rukovali2	bíli su rukovali2
	Imperfect	rukovah	rukovaše	rukovaše	rukovasmo	rukovaste	rukovahu
Conditional I		rukovao bih2	rukovao bi2	rukovao bi2	rukovali bismo2	rukovali biste2	rukovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih rukovao2	bȉo bi rukovao2	bȉo bi rukovao2	bíli bismo rukovali2	bíli biste rukovali2	bíli bi rukovali2
Imperative		—	rukuj	—	rukujmo	rukujte	—
Active past participle		rukovao m / rukovala f / rukovalo n			rukovali m / rukovale f / rukovala 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

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