kušati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Slavic *kǫsati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kûʃati/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ša‧ti

Verb

kȕšati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏шати)

  1. (transitive) to taste
  2. (transitive) to try, test

Conjugation

Conjugation of kušati
Infinitive: kušati Present verbal adverb: kȕšajūći Past verbal adverb: kȕšāvši Verbal noun: kȕšānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present kušam kušaš kuša kušamo kušate kušaju
Future Future I kušat ću1
kušaću 		kušat ćeš1
kušaćeš 		kušat će1
kušaće 		kušat ćemo1
kušaćemo 		kušat ćete1
kušaćete 		kušat će1
kušaće
Future II bȕdēm kušao2 bȕdēš kušao2 bȕdē kušao2 bȕdēmo kušali2 bȕdēte kušali2 bȕdū kušali2
Past Perfect kušao sam2 kušao si2 kušao je2 kušali smo2 kušali ste2 kušali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kušao2 bȉo si kušao2 bȉo je kušao2 bíli smo kušali2 bíli ste kušali2 bíli su kušali2
Aorist kušah {{{a.2s}}} {{{a.3s}}} {{{a.1p}}} {{{a.2p}}} {{{a.3p}}}
Imperfect kušah kušaše kušaše kušasmo kušaste kušahu
Conditional I kušao bih2 kušao bi2 kušao bi2 kušali bismo2 kušali biste2 kušali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kušao2 bȉo bi kušao2 bȉo bi kušao2 bíli bismo kušali2 bíli biste kušali2 bíli bi kušali2
Imperative — kušaj — kušajmo kušajte —
Active past participle kušao m / kušala f / kušalo n kušali m / kušale f / kušala n
Passive past participle kušan m / kušana f / kušano n kušani m / kušane f / kušana 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.

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