postupati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ stupati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /postǔːpati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧stu‧pa‧ti

Verb

postúpati impf (Cyrillic spelling посту́пати)

  1. (intransitive) to act, proceed
    postupati prema nekome, postupati s nekim — to treat, to act toward somebody
    postupati s nečim — to handle, operate

Conjugation

Conjugation of postupati
infinitive postupati
present verbal adverb postúpajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun postúpānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present postupam postupaš postupa postupamo postupate postupaju
future future I postupat ću1
postupaću
postupat ćeš1
postupaćeš
postupat će1
postupaće
postupat ćemo1
postupaćemo
postupat ćete1
postupaćete
postupat ćē1
postupaće
future II bȕdēm postupao2 bȕdēš postupao2 bȕdē postupao2 bȕdēmo postupali2 bȕdēte postupali2 bȕdū postupali2
past perfect postupao sam2 postupao si2 postupao je2 postupali smo2 postupali ste2 postupali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam postupao2 bȉo si postupao2 bȉo je postupao2 bíli smo postupali2 bíli ste postupali2 bíli su postupali2
imperfect postupah postupaše postupaše postupasmo postupaste postupahu
conditional conditional I postupao bih2 postupao bi2 postupao bi2 postupali bismo2 postupali biste2 postupali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih postupao2 bȉo bi postupao2 bȉo bi postupao2 bíli bismo postupali2 bíli biste postupali2 bíli bi postupali2
imperative postupaj postupajmo postupajte
active past participle postupao m / postupala f / postupalo n postupali m / postupale f / postupala 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.