pucati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫknǫti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûtsati/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ca‧ti

Verb

pȕcati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу̏цати)

  1. (intransitive) to crack, break, burst, split
  2. (intransitive) to puncture, rupture
  3. (intransitive) to shoot, fire (from a gun, or with ball in sports)
    pucati na gol
  4. (intransitive) to fire, go off (of a gun)
    pucati iz pištolja
  5. (intransitive) to crack, snap, click (with fingers, tongue, whip etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of pucati
Infinitive: pucati Present verbal adverb: pȕcajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pȕcānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pucam pucaš puca pucamo pucate pucaju
Future Future I pucat ću1
pucaću 		pucat ćeš1
pucaćeš 		pucat će1
pucaće 		pucat ćemo1
pucaćemo 		pucat ćete1
pucaćete 		pucat će1
pucaće
Future II bȕdēm pucao2 bȕdēš pucao2 bȕdē pucao2 bȕdēmo pucali2 bȕdēte pucali2 bȕdū pucali2
Past Perfect pucao sam2 pucao si2 pucao je2 pucali smo2 pucali ste2 pucali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pucao2 bȉo si pucao2 bȉo je pucao2 bíli smo pucali2 bíli ste pucali2 bíli su pucali2
Imperfect pucah pucaše pucaše pucasmo pucaste pucahu
Conditional I pucao bih2 pucao bi2 pucao bi2 pucali bismo2 pucali biste2 pucali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pucao2 bȉo bi pucao2 bȉo bi pucao2 bíli bismo pucali2 bíli biste pucali2 bíli bi pucali2
Imperative — pucaj — pucajmo pucajte —
Active past participle pucao m / pucala f / pucalo n pucali m / pucale f / pucala 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

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

Etymology 2

Adapted borrowing of German putzen +‎ -ati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûtsati/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ca‧ti

Verb

pȕcati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу̏цати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to clean
Conjugation
Conjugation of pucati
Infinitive: pucati Present verbal adverb: pȕcajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pȕcānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pucam pucaš puca pucamo pucate pucaju
Future Future I pucat ću1
pucaću 		pucat ćeš1
pucaćeš 		pucat će1
pucaće 		pucat ćemo1
pucaćemo 		pucat ćete1
pucaćete 		pucat će1
pucaće
Future II bȕdēm pucao2 bȕdēš pucao2 bȕdē pucao2 bȕdēmo pucali2 bȕdēte pucali2 bȕdū pucali2
Past Perfect pucao sam2 pucao si2 pucao je2 pucali smo2 pucali ste2 pucali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pucao2 bȉo si pucao2 bȉo je pucao2 bíli smo pucali2 bíli ste pucali2 bíli su pucali2
Imperfect pucah pucaše pucaše pucasmo pucaste pucahu
Conditional I pucao bih2 pucao bi2 pucao bi2 pucali bismo2 pucali biste2 pucali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pucao2 bȉo bi pucao2 bȉo bi pucao2 bíli bismo pucali2 bíli biste pucali2 bíli bi pucali2
Imperative — pucaj — pucajmo pucajte —
Active past participle pucao m / pucala f / pucalo n pucali m / pucale f / pucala 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

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