guknuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From gȕgūt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡǔːknuti/
  • Hyphenation: guk‧nu‧ti

Verb

gúknuti pf (Cyrillic spelling гу́кнути)

  1. (intransitive) to coo (once)
  2. (ambitransitive, figuratively, slang) to get talking, break silence (say something that has been kept hidden or undisclosed)

Conjugation

Conjugation of guknuti
infinitive guknuti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb gúknūvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present guknem gukneš gukne guknemo guknete guknu
future future I guknut ću1
guknuću
guknut ćeš1
guknućeš
guknut će1
guknuće
guknut ćemo1
guknućemo
guknut ćete1
guknućete
guknut ćē1
guknuće
future II bȕdēm guknuo2 bȕdēš guknuo2 bȕdē guknuo2 bȕdēmo guknuli2 bȕdēte guknuli2 bȕdū guknuli2
past perfect guknuo sam2 guknuo si2 guknuo je2 guknuli smo2 guknuli ste2 guknuli su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam guknuo2 bȉo si guknuo2 bȉo je guknuo2 bíli smo guknuli2 bíli ste guknuli2 bíli su guknuli2
aorist guknuh guknu guknu guknusmo guknuste guknuše
conditional conditional I guknuo bih2 guknuo bi2 guknuo bi2 guknuli bismo2 guknuli biste2 guknuli bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih guknuo2 bȉo bi guknuo2 bȉo bi guknuo2 bíli bismo guknuli2 bíli biste guknuli2 bíli bi guknuli2
imperative gukni guknimo guknite
active past participle guknuo m / guknula f / guknulo n guknuli m / guknule f / guknula 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.

References

  • guknuti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025