kukati

kukati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kukati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kûkati/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ka‧ti

Verb

kȕkati impf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏кати)

1. (intransitive) to lament, wail
2. (intransitive) to complain, whine, moan
3. (intransitive) to cuckoo

Conjugation

Conjugation of kukati

Infinitive: kukati		Present verbal adverb: kȕkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kȕkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kukam	kukaš	kuka	kukamo	kukate	kukaju
Future	Future I	kukat ću1 kukaću	kukat ćeš1 kukaćeš	kukat će1 kukaće	kukat ćemo1 kukaćemo	kukat ćete1 kukaćete	kukat će1 kukaće
	Future II	budem kukao2	budeš kukao2	bude kukao2	budemo kukali2	budete kukali2	budu kukali2
Past	Perfect	kukao sam2	kukao si2	kukao je2	kukali smo2	kukali ste2	kukali su2
	Pluperfect3	bio sam kukao2	bio si kukao2	bio je kukao2	bili smo kukali2	bili ste kukali2	bili su kukali2
	Imperfect	kukah	kukaše	kukaše	kukasmo	kukaste	kukahu
Conditional I		kukao bih2	kukao bi2	kukao bi2	kukali bismo2	kukali biste2	kukali bi2
Conditional II		bio bih kukao2	bio bi kukao2	bio bi kukao2	bili bismo kukali2	bili biste kukali2	bili bi kukali2
Imperative		—	kukaj	—	kukajmo	kukajte	—
Active past participle		kukao m / kukala f / kukalo n			kukali m / kukale f / kukala 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.   * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

• pròkukati
• zàkukati