puzati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьlzati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûzati/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧za‧ti

Verb

pȕzati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу̏зати)

  1. (intransitive) to crawl
  2. (intransitive) to creep
  3. (intransitive) to cringe

Conjugation

Conjugation of puzati
infinitive puzati
present verbal adverb pȕžūći/pȕzajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pȕzānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pȕžēm/pȕzām pȕžēš/pȕzāš pȕžē/pȕzā pȕžēmo/pȕzāmo pȕžēte/pȕzāte pȕžū/pȕzajū
future future I pȕžat ću1
pȕzaću
pȕžat ćeš1
pȕzaćeš
pȕžat će1
pȕzaće
pȕžat ćemo1
pȕzaćemo
pȕžat ćete1
pȕzaćete
pȕžat ćē1
pȕzaće
future II bȕdēm pȕzao2 bȕdēš pȕzao2 bȕdē pȕzao2 bȕdēmo pȕzali2 bȕdēte pȕzali2 bȕdū pȕzali2
past perfect pȕzao sam2 pȕzao si2 pȕzao je2 pȕzali smo2 pȕzali ste2 pȕzali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pȕzao2 bȉo si pȕzao2 bȉo je pȕzao2 bíli smo pȕzali2 bíli ste pȕzali2 bíli su pȕzali2
imperfect pȕzāh pȕzāše pȕzāše pȕzāsmo pȕzāste pȕzāhū/pȕzāhu
conditional conditional I pȕzao bih2 pȕzao bi2 pȕzao bi2 pȕzali bismo2 pȕzali biste2 pȕzali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pȕzao2 bȉo bi pȕzao2 bȉo bi pȕzao2 bíli bismo pȕzali2 bíli biste pȕzali2 bíli bi pȕzali2
imperative pȕži pȕžimo pȕžite
active past participle pȕzao m / pȕzala f / pȕzalo n pȕzali m / pȕzale f / pȕzala 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.

Derived terms

  • ìspuzati
  • òtpuzati
  • spȕzati
  • ùpuzati
  • ùspuzati