lokati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lokati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǒkati/
  • Hyphenation: lo‧ka‧ti

Verb

lòkati impf (Cyrillic spelling ло̀кати)

  1. (ambitransitive) to drink, lap (suddenly, with an accompanying sound)
  2. (colloquial, intransitive) to drink, guzzle (consume alcohol), especially excessively

Conjugation

Conjugation of lokati
infinitive lokati
present verbal adverb lȍčūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun lòkānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present ločem ločeš loče ločemo ločete loču
future future I lokat ću1
lokaću
lokat ćeš1
lokaćeš
lokat će1
lokaće
lokat ćemo1
lokaćemo
lokat ćete1
lokaćete
lokat ćē1
lokaće
future II bȕdēm lokao2 bȕdēš lokao2 bȕdē lokao2 bȕdēmo lokali2 bȕdēte lokali2 bȕdū lokali2
past perfect lokao sam2 lokao si2 lokao je2 lokali smo2 lokali ste2 lokali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam lokao2 bȉo si lokao2 bȉo je lokao2 bíli smo lokali2 bíli ste lokali2 bíli su lokali2
imperfect lokah lokaše lokaše lokasmo lokaste lokahu
conditional conditional I lokao bih2 lokao bi2 lokao bi2 lokali bismo2 lokali biste2 lokali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih lokao2 bȉo bi lokao2 bȉo bi lokao2 bíli bismo lokali2 bíli biste lokali2 bíli bi lokali2
imperative loči ločimo ločite
active past participle lokao m / lokala f / lokalo n lokali m / lokale f / lokala 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

  • ìzlokati
  • polòkati

References

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