rukovati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rûkoʋati/
  • Hyphenation: ru‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

rȕkovati impf (Cyrillic spelling ру̏ковати)

  1. (intransitive, with instrumental) to handle, manage, operate
  2. (reflexive) to shake hands

Conjugation

Conjugation of rukovati
Infinitive: rukovati Present verbal adverb: rȕkujūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: rȕkovānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present rukujem rukuješ rukuje rukujemo rukujete rukuju
Future Future I rukovat ću1
rukovaću 		rukovat ćeš1
rukovaćeš 		rukovat će1
rukovaće 		rukovat ćemo1
rukovaćemo 		rukovat ćete1
rukovaćete 		rukovat će1
rukovaće
Future II bȕdēm rukovao2 bȕdēš rukovao2 bȕdē rukovao2 bȕdēmo rukovali2 bȕdēte rukovali2 bȕdū rukovali2
Past Perfect rukovao sam2 rukovao si2 rukovao je2 rukovali smo2 rukovali ste2 rukovali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam rukovao2 bȉo si rukovao2 bȉo je rukovao2 bíli smo rukovali2 bíli ste rukovali2 bíli su rukovali2
Imperfect rukovah rukovaše rukovaše rukovasmo rukovaste rukovahu
Conditional I rukovao bih2 rukovao bi2 rukovao bi2 rukovali bismo2 rukovali biste2 rukovali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih rukovao2 bȉo bi rukovao2 bȉo bi rukovao2 bíli bismo rukovali2 bíli biste rukovali2 bíli bi rukovali2
Imperative — rukuj — rukujmo rukujte —
Active past participle rukovao m / rukovala f / rukovalo n rukovali m / rukovale f / rukovala 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

  • “rukovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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