popuštati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ puštati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /popǔːʃtati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧pu‧šta‧ti

Verb

popúštati impf (Cyrillic spelling попу́штати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to reduce, rebate, deduct (of price etc.)
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to relax, loosen
  3. (transitive, intransitive) to indulge sb
  4. (transitive, intransitive) to cede, give away; ease
  5. (transitive, intransitive) to abate, subside (of wind, current etc.)
  6. (transitive, intransitive) to intermit (of pain, illness etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of popuštati
Infinitive: popuštati Present verbal adverb: popúštajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: popúštānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present popuštam popuštaš popušta popuštamo popuštate popuštaju
Future Future I popuštat ću1
popuštaću 		popuštat ćeš1
popuštaćeš 		popuštat će1
popuštaće 		popuštat ćemo1
popuštaćemo 		popuštat ćete1
popuštaćete 		popuštat će1
popuštaće
Future II bȕdēm popuštao2 bȕdēš popuštao2 bȕdē popuštao2 bȕdēmo popuštali2 bȕdēte popuštali2 bȕdū popuštali2
Past Perfect popuštao sam2 popuštao si2 popuštao je2 popuštali smo2 popuštali ste2 popuštali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam popuštao2 bȉo si popuštao2 bȉo je popuštao2 bíli smo popuštali2 bíli ste popuštali2 bíli su popuštali2
Imperfect popuštah popuštaše popuštaše popuštasmo popuštaste popuštahu
Conditional I popuštao bih2 popuštao bi2 popuštao bi2 popuštali bismo2 popuštali biste2 popuštali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih popuštao2 bȉo bi popuštao2 bȉo bi popuštao2 bíli bismo popuštali2 bíli biste popuštali2 bíli bi popuštali2
Imperative — popuštaj — popuštajmo popuštajte —
Active past participle popuštao m / popuštala f / popuštalo n popuštali m / popuštale f / popuštala 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

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