potkivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /potkǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pot‧ki‧va‧ti

Verb

potkívati impf (Cyrillic spelling потки́вати)

  1. (transitive) to horseshoe
  2. (reflexive) to get ready, study, become well-versed in

Conjugation

Conjugation of potkivati
infinitive potkivati
present verbal adverb potkívajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun potkívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present potkivam potkivaš potkiva potkivamo potkivate potkivaju
future future I potkivat ću1
potkivaću
potkivat ćeš1
potkivaćeš
potkivat će1
potkivaće
potkivat ćemo1
potkivaćemo
potkivat ćete1
potkivaćete
potkivat ćē1
potkivaće
future II bȕdēm potkivao2 bȕdēš potkivao2 bȕdē potkivao2 bȕdēmo potkivali2 bȕdēte potkivali2 bȕdū potkivali2
past perfect potkivao sam2 potkivao si2 potkivao je2 potkivali smo2 potkivali ste2 potkivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam potkivao2 bȉo si potkivao2 bȉo je potkivao2 bíli smo potkivali2 bíli ste potkivali2 bíli su potkivali2
imperfect potkivah potkivaše potkivaše potkivasmo potkivaste potkivahu
conditional conditional I potkivao bih2 potkivao bi2 potkivao bi2 potkivali bismo2 potkivali biste2 potkivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih potkivao2 bȉo bi potkivao2 bȉo bi potkivao2 bíli bismo potkivali2 bíli biste potkivali2 bíli bi potkivali2
imperative potkivaj potkivajmo potkivajte
active past participle potkivao m / potkivala f / potkivalo n potkivali m / potkivale f / potkivala n
passive past participle potkivan m / potkivana f / potkivano n potkivani m / potkivane f / potkivana 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.

Further reading

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