pljeskati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plěskati, *pleskati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʎêskati/
  • Hyphenation: plje‧ska‧ti

Verb

pljȅskati impf (Cyrillic spelling пље̏скати)

  1. (intransitive) to applaud, clap
  2. (intransitive) to slap the surface of something with something flat (e.g. palm against the water)

Conjugation

Conjugation of pljeskati
Infinitive: pljeskati Present verbal adverb: pljȅskajūći / pljéšćūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pljȅskānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present plješćem plješćeš plješće plješćemo plješćete plješću
Future Future I pljeskat ću1
pljeskaću 		pljeskat ćeš1
pljeskaćeš 		pljeskat će1
pljeskaće 		pljeskat ćemo1
pljeskaćemo 		pljeskat ćete1
pljeskaćete 		pljeskat će1
pljeskaće
Future II bȕdēm pljeskao2 bȕdēš pljeskao2 bȕdē pljeskao2 bȕdēmo pljeskali2 bȕdēte pljeskali2 bȕdū pljeskali2
Past Perfect pljeskao sam2 pljeskao si2 pljeskao je2 pljeskali smo2 pljeskali ste2 pljeskali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pljeskao2 bȉo si pljeskao2 bȉo je pljeskao2 bíli smo pljeskali2 bíli ste pljeskali2 bíli su pljeskali2
Imperfect pljeskah pljeskaše pljeskaše pljeskasmo pljeskaste pljeskahu
Conditional I pljeskao bih2 pljeskao bi2 pljeskao bi2 pljeskali bismo2 pljeskali biste2 pljeskali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pljeskao2 bȉo bi pljeskao2 bȉo bi pljeskao2 bíli bismo pljeskali2 bíli biste pljeskali2 bíli bi pljeskali2
Imperative — plješći — plješćimo plješćite —
Active past participle pljeskao m / pljeskala f / pljeskalo n pljeskali m / pljeskale f / pljeskala 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

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