usisati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔsisati/
• Hyphenation: u‧si‧sa‧ti

Verb

ùsisati pf (Cyrillic spelling у̀сисати)

1. (transitive) to suck in, absorb
2. (transitive, intransitive) to vacuum

Conjugation

Conjugation of usisati

Infinitive: usisati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: ùsisāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		usišem	usišeš	usiše	usišemo	usišete	usišu
Future	Future I	usisat ću1 usisaću	usisat ćeš1 usisaćeš	usisat će1 usisaće	usisat ćemo1 usisaćemo	usisat ćete1 usisaćete	usisat će1 usisaće
	Future II	bȕdēm usisao2	bȕdēš usisao2	bȕdē usisao2	bȕdēmo usisali2	bȕdēte usisali2	bȕdū usisali2
Past	Perfect	usisao sam2	usisao si2	usisao je2	usisali smo2	usisali ste2	usisali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam usisao2	bȉo si usisao2	bȉo je usisao2	bíli smo usisali2	bíli ste usisali2	bíli su usisali2
	Aorist	usisah	usisa	usisa	usisasmo	usisaste	usisaše
Conditional I		usisao bih2	usisao bi2	usisao bi2	usisali bismo2	usisali biste2	usisali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih usisao2	bȉo bi usisao2	bȉo bi usisao2	bíli bismo usisali2	bíli biste usisali2	bíli bi usisali2
Imperative		—	usiši	—	usišimo	usišite	—
Active past participle		usisao m / usisala f / usisalo n			usisali m / usisale f / usisala n
Passive past participle		usisan m / usisana f / usisano n			usisani m / usisane f / usisana 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.

Related terms

• usisávati impf

Further reading

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