puknuti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • pȕći (alternative infinitive)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫknǫti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûknuti/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧knu‧ti

Verb

pȕknuti pf (Cyrillic spelling пу̏кнути)

  1. (intransitive) to crack, break, burst, split
  2. (intransitive) to puncture, rupture
  3. (intransitive) to fire, go off (of a gun)
  4. (intransitive) to crack, snap, click (with fingers, tongue, whip etc.)
  5. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) to bang

Conjugation

Conjugation of puknuti
infinitive puknuti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb pȕkāvši / pȕknūvši
verbal noun puknúće
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present puknem pukneš pukne puknemo puknete puknu
future future I puknut ću1
puknuću
puknut ćeš1
puknućeš
puknut će1
puknuće
puknut ćemo1
puknućemo
puknut ćete1
puknućete
puknut ćē1
puknuće
future II bȕdēm pukao/puknuo2 bȕdēš pukao/puknuo2 bȕdē pukao/puknuo2 bȕdēmo pukli/puknuli2 bȕdēte pukli/puknuli2 bȕdū pukli/puknuli2
past perfect pukao/puknuo sam2 pukao/puknuo si2 pukao/puknuo je2 pukli/puknuli smo2 pukli/puknuli ste2 pukli/puknuli su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pukao/puknuo2 bȉo si pukao/puknuo2 bȉo je pukao/puknuo2 bíli smo pukli/puknuli2 bíli ste pukli/puknuli2 bíli su pukli/puknuli2
aorist pukoh / puknuh puče / puknu puče / puknu pukosmo / puknusmo pukoste / puknuste pukoše / puknuše
conditional conditional I pukao/puknuo bih2 pukao/puknuo bi2 pukao/puknuo bi2 pukli/puknuli bismo2 pukli/puknuli biste2 pukli/puknuli bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pukao/puknuo2 bȉo bi pukao/puknuo2 bȉo bi pukao/puknuo2 bíli bismo pukli/puknuli2 bíli biste pukli/puknuli2 bíli bi pukli/puknuli2
imperative pukni puknimo puknite
active past participle pukao/puknuo m / pukla/puknula f / puklo/puknulo n pukli/puknuli m / pukle/puknule f / pukla/puknula n
passive past participle puknut m / puknuta f / puknuto n puknuti m / puknute f / puknuta 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.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:puknuti.

Derived terms

  • ìspuknuti
  • nàpuknuti
  • prèpuknuti

Further reading

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