ufati

See also: úfati

Phuthi

Etymology

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Noun

úfátí class 1 (plural ébáfátí class 2)

1. woman

Inflection

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *upъvati. Cognates include Slovene upati, Bulgarian упова́вам се (upovávam se), Russian уповать (upovatʹ), Polish ufać, Slovak dúfať.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔfati/
• Hyphenation: u‧fa‧ti

Verb

ùfati impf (Cyrillic spelling у̀фати)

1. (reflexive) to hope

Conjugation

Conjugation of ufati

Infinitive: ufati		Present verbal adverb: ùfajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ùfānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ufam	ufaš	ufa	ufamo	ufate	ufaju
Future	Future I	ufat ću1 ufaću	ufat ćeš1 ufaćeš	ufat će1 ufaće	ufat ćemo1 ufaćemo	ufat ćete1 ufaćete	ufat će1 ufaće
	Future II	bȕdēm ufao2	bȕdēš ufao2	bȕdē ufao2	bȕdēmo ufali2	bȕdēte ufali2	bȕdū ufali2
Past	Perfect	ufao sam2	ufao si2	ufao je2	ufali smo2	ufali ste2	ufali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ufao2	bȉo si ufao2	bȉo je ufao2	bíli smo ufali2	bíli ste ufali2	bíli su ufali2
	Imperfect	ufah	ufaše	ufaše	ufasmo	ufaste	ufahu
Conditional I		ufao bih2	ufao bi2	ufao bi2	ufali bismo2	ufali biste2	ufali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ufao2	bȉo bi ufao2	bȉo bi ufao2	bíli bismo ufali2	bíli biste ufali2	bíli bi ufali2
Imperative		—	ufaj	—	ufajmo	ufajte	—
Active past participle		ufao m / ufala f / ufalo n			ufali m / ufale f / ufala 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

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