kukati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kukati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kûkati/
Hyphenation: ku‧ka‧ti

Verb

kȕkati impf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏кати)

(intransitive) to lament, wail
(intransitive) to complain, whine, moan
(intransitive) to cuckoo

Conjugation

Conjugation of *kukati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		kukati
present verbal adverb		kȕkajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		kȕkānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		kukam	kukaš	kuka	kukamo	kukate	kukaju
future	future I	kukat ću¹ kukaću	kukat ćeš¹ kukaćeš	kukat će¹ kukaće	kukat ćemo¹ kukaćemo	kukat ćete¹ kukaćete	kukat ćē¹ kukaće
future	future II	bȕdēm kukao²	bȕdēš kukao²	bȕdē kukao²	bȕdēmo kukali²	bȕdēte kukali²	bȕdū kukali²
past	perfect	kukao sam²	kukao si²	kukao je²	kukali smo²	kukali ste²	kukali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam kukao²	bȉo si kukao²	bȉo je kukao²	bíli smo kukali²	bíli ste kukali²	bíli su kukali²
	imperfect	kukah	kukaše	kukaše	kukasmo	kukaste	kukahu
conditional	conditional I	kukao bih²	kukao bi²	kukao bi²	kukali bismo²	kukali biste²	kukali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih kukao²	bȉo bi kukao²	bȉo bi kukao²	bíli bismo kukali²	bíli biste kukali²	bíli bi kukali²
imperative		—	kukaj	—	kukajmo	kukajte	—
active past participle		kukao m / kukala f / kukalo n			kukali m / kukale f / kukala 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

pròkukati
zàkukati