potkopati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ kopati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /potkǒpati/
  • Hyphenation: pot‧ko‧pa‧ti

Verb

potkòpati pf (Cyrillic spelling потко̀пати)

  1. (transitive) to dig out (from below)
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to undermine

Conjugation

Conjugation of potkopati
infinitive potkopati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb potkòpāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present potkopam potkopaš potkopa potkopamo potkopate potkopaju
future future I potkopat ću1
potkopaću
potkopat ćeš1
potkopaćeš
potkopat će1
potkopaće
potkopat ćemo1
potkopaćemo
potkopat ćete1
potkopaćete
potkopat ćē1
potkopaće
future II bȕdēm potkopao2 bȕdēš potkopao2 bȕdē potkopao2 bȕdēmo potkopali2 bȕdēte potkopali2 bȕdū potkopali2
past perfect potkopao sam2 potkopao si2 potkopao je2 potkopali smo2 potkopali ste2 potkopali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam potkopao2 bȉo si potkopao2 bȉo je potkopao2 bíli smo potkopali2 bíli ste potkopali2 bíli su potkopali2
aorist potkopah potkopa potkopa potkopasmo potkopaste potkopaše
conditional conditional I potkopao bih2 potkopao bi2 potkopao bi2 potkopali bismo2 potkopali biste2 potkopali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih potkopao2 bȉo bi potkopao2 bȉo bi potkopao2 bíli bismo potkopali2 bíli biste potkopali2 bíli bi potkopali2
imperative potkopaj potkopajmo potkopajte
active past participle potkopao m / potkopala f / potkopalo n potkopali m / potkopale f / potkopala n
passive past participle potkopan m / potkopana f / potkopano n potkopani m / potkopane f / potkopana 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.