Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pomagati. Equivalent to pomoći + -ati. Cognates include Russian помогать (pomogatʹ), Polish pomagać, Ukrainian помагати (pomahaty), Belarusian памагчы (pamahčy), Czech pomáhat.
pomágati impf (Cyrillic spelling пома́гати)
| Infinitive: pomagati | Present verbal adverb: pomážūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: pomágānje | ||||
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| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | pomažem | pomažeš | pomaže | pomažemo | pomažete | pomažu | |
| Future | Future I | pomagat ću1 pomagaću |
pomagat ćeš1 pomagaćeš |
pomagat će1 pomagaće |
pomagat ćemo1 pomagaćemo |
pomagat ćete1 pomagaćete |
pomagat će1 pomagaće |
| Future II | bȕdēm pomagao2 | bȕdēš pomagao2 | bȕdē pomagao2 | bȕdēmo pomagali2 | bȕdēte pomagali2 | bȕdū pomagali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | pomagao sam2 | pomagao si2 | pomagao je2 | pomagali smo2 | pomagali ste2 | pomagali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam pomagao2 | bȉo si pomagao2 | bȉo je pomagao2 | bíli smo pomagali2 | bíli ste pomagali2 | bíli su pomagali2 | |
| Imperfect | pomagah | pomagaše | pomagaše | pomagasmo | pomagaste | pomagahu | |
| Conditional I | pomagao bih2 | pomagao bi2 | pomagao bi2 | pomagali bismo2 | pomagali biste2 | pomagali bi2 | |
| Conditional II4 | bȉo bih pomagao2 | bȉo bi pomagao2 | bȉo bi pomagao2 | bíli bismo pomagali2 | bíli biste pomagali2 | bíli bi pomagali2 | |
| Imperative | — | pomaži | — | pomažimo | pomažite | — | |
| Active past participle | pomagao m / pomagala f / pomagalo n | pomagali m / pomagale f / pomagala n | |||||
| Passive past participle | pomagan m / pomagana f / pomagano n | pomagani m / pomagane f / pomagana 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.
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From Proto-Slavic *pomagati. Equivalent to pomóči + -ati.
pomágati or pomagáti impf or pf
| -ati -am (acute or AP b) | ||||||
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| infinitive | pomágati, pomagáti | |||||
| 1st singular | pomágam | |||||
| infinitive | pomágati, pomagáti | pomágat | ||||
| supine | pomágat | |||||
| verbal noun | pomáganje | |||||
| participle | converb | |||||
| present | pomagajọ̄č | pomagȃje | ||||
| past | pomágan | — | ||||
| l-participle | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| singular | pomágał | pomágala, pomagȃla | pomágalo, pomagálo | |||
| dual | pomágala, pomagála | pomágali, pomagáli | pomágali, pomagáli | |||
| plural | pomágali, pomagáli | pomágale, pomagále | pomágala, pomagála | |||
| present | imperative | |||||
| 1st singular | pomágam | — | ||||
| 2nd singular | pomágaš | pomágaj | ||||
| 3rd singular | pomága | — | ||||
| 1st dual | pomágava | pomágajva, pomagȃjva | ||||
| 2nd dual | pomágata | pomágajta, pomagȃjta | ||||
| 3rd dual | pomágata | — | ||||
| 1st plural | pomágamo | pomágajmo, pomagȃjmo | ||||
| 2nd plural | pomágate | pomágajte, pomagȃjte | ||||
| 3rd plural | pomágajo | — | ||||