gušiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From older dúšiti, probably modified by analogy with gȕša (gullet). From Proto-Slavic *dušìti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡǔːʃiti/
  • Hyphenation: gu‧ši‧ti

Verb

gúšiti impf (Cyrillic spelling гу́шити)

  1. (transitive) to choke, strangle
  2. (reflexive) to choke, suffocate
  3. (transitive, figurative) to hinder, restrain, stifle

Conjugation

Conjugation of gušiti
infinitive gušiti
present verbal adverb gúšēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun gúšēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present gušim gušiš guši gušimo gušite guše
future future I gušit ću1
gušiću
gušit ćeš1
gušićeš
gušit će1
gušiće
gušit ćemo1
gušićemo
gušit ćete1
gušićete
gušit ćē1
gušiće
future II bȕdēm gušio2 bȕdēš gušio2 bȕdē gušio2 bȕdēmo gušili2 bȕdēte gušili2 bȕdū gušili2
past perfect gušio sam2 gušio si2 gušio je2 gušili smo2 gušili ste2 gušili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam gušio2 bȉo si gušio2 bȉo je gušio2 bíli smo gušili2 bíli ste gušili2 bíli su gušili2
imperfect gušah gušaše gušaše gušasmo gušaste gušahu
conditional conditional I gušio bih2 gušio bi2 gušio bi2 gušili bismo2 gušili biste2 gušili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih gušio2 bȉo bi gušio2 bȉo bi gušio2 bíli bismo gušili2 bíli biste gušili2 bíli bi gušili2
imperative guši gušimo gušite
active past participle gušio m / gušila f / gušilo n gušili m / gušile f / gušila n
passive past participle gušen m / gušena f / gušeno n gušeni m / gušene f / gušena 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