potkupiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ kupiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /potkǔːpiti/
  • Hyphenation: pot‧ku‧pi‧ti

Verb

potkúpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling потку́пити)

  1. (transitive) to bribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of potkupiti
infinitive potkupiti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb potkúpīvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present potkupim potkupiš potkupi potkupimo potkupite potkupe
future future I potkupit ću1
potkupiću
potkupit ćeš1
potkupićeš
potkupit će1
potkupiće
potkupit ćemo1
potkupićemo
potkupit ćete1
potkupićete
potkupit ćē1
potkupiće
future II bȕdēm potkupio2 bȕdēš potkupio2 bȕdē potkupio2 bȕdēmo potkupili2 bȕdēte potkupili2 bȕdū potkupili2
past perfect potkupio sam2 potkupio si2 potkupio je2 potkupili smo2 potkupili ste2 potkupili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam potkupio2 bȉo si potkupio2 bȉo je potkupio2 bíli smo potkupili2 bíli ste potkupili2 bíli su potkupili2
aorist potkupih potkupi potkupi potkupismo potkupiste potkupiše
conditional conditional I potkupio bih2 potkupio bi2 potkupio bi2 potkupili bismo2 potkupili biste2 potkupili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih potkupio2 bȉo bi potkupio2 bȉo bi potkupio2 bíli bismo potkupili2 bíli biste potkupili2 bíli bi potkupili2
imperative potkupi potkupimo potkupite
active past participle potkupio m / potkupila f / potkupilo n potkupili m / potkupile f / potkupila n
passive past participle potkupljen m / potkupljena f / potkupljeno n potkupljeni m / potkupljene f / potkupljena 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

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