potkopavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /potkopǎːʋati/
Hyphenation: pot‧ko‧pa‧va‧ti

Verb

potkopávati impf (Cyrillic spelling поткопа́вати)

(transitive) to dig out (from below)
(transitive, figuratively) to undermine

Conjugation

Conjugation of *potkopavati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		potkopavati
present verbal adverb		potkopávajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		potkopávānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		potkopavam	potkopavaš	potkopava	potkopavamo	potkopavate	potkopavaju
future	future I	potkopavat ću¹ potkopavaću	potkopavat ćeš¹ potkopavaćeš	potkopavat će¹ potkopavaće	potkopavat ćemo¹ potkopavaćemo	potkopavat ćete¹ potkopavaćete	potkopavat ćē¹ potkopavaće
future	future II	bȕdēm potkopavao²	bȕdēš potkopavao²	bȕdē potkopavao²	bȕdēmo potkopavali²	bȕdēte potkopavali²	bȕdū potkopavali²
past	perfect	potkopavao sam²	potkopavao si²	potkopavao je²	potkopavali smo²	potkopavali ste²	potkopavali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam potkopavao²	bȉo si potkopavao²	bȉo je potkopavao²	bíli smo potkopavali²	bíli ste potkopavali²	bíli su potkopavali²
	imperfect	potkopavah	potkopavaše	potkopavaše	potkopavasmo	potkopavaste	potkopavahu
conditional	conditional I	potkopavao bih²	potkopavao bi²	potkopavao bi²	potkopavali bismo²	potkopavali biste²	potkopavali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih potkopavao²	bȉo bi potkopavao²	bȉo bi potkopavao²	bíli bismo potkopavali²	bíli biste potkopavali²	bíli bi potkopavali²
imperative		—	potkopavaj	—	potkopavajmo	potkopavajte	—
active past participle		potkopavao m / potkopavala f / potkopavalo n			potkopavali m / potkopavale f / potkopavala n
passive past participle		potkopavan m / potkopavana f / potkopavano n			potkopavani m / potkopavane f / potkopavana 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.

Related terms

potkòpati pf