kukati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kukati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kûkati/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ka‧ti

Verb

kȕkati impf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏кати)

  1. (intransitive) to lament, wail
  2. (intransitive) to complain, whine, moan
  3. (intransitive) to cuckoo

Conjugation

Conjugation of kukati
Infinitive: kukati Present verbal adverb: kȕkajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: kȕkānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present kukam kukaš kuka kukamo kukate kukaju
Future Future I kukat ću1
kukaću 		kukat ćeš1
kukaćeš 		kukat će1
kukaće 		kukat ćemo1
kukaćemo 		kukat ćete1
kukaćete 		kukat će1
kukaće
Future II bȕdēm kukao2 bȕdēš kukao2 bȕdē kukao2 bȕdēmo kukali2 bȕdēte kukali2 bȕdū kukali2
Past Perfect kukao sam2 kukao si2 kukao je2 kukali smo2 kukali ste2 kukali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kukao2 bȉo si kukao2 bȉo je kukao2 bíli smo kukali2 bíli ste kukali2 bíli su kukali2
Imperfect kukah kukaše kukaše kukasmo kukaste kukahu
Conditional I kukao bih2 kukao bi2 kukao bi2 kukali bismo2 kukali biste2 kukali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kukao2 bȉo bi kukao2 bȉo bi kukao2 bíli bismo kukali2 bíli biste kukali2 bíli bi kukali2
Imperative — kukaj — kukajmo kukajte —
Active past participle kukao m / kukala f / kukalo n kukali m / kukale f / kukala 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

Further reading

  • “kukati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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