podmazati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

pod- +‎ mazati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǒdmazati/
Hyphenation: pod‧ma‧za‧ti

Verb

pòdmazati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀дмазати)

(transitive) to lubricate, oil
(transitive, figuratively) to grease the palm (of), grease palms, i.e. to bribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of podmazati

Infinitive: podmazati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòdmazāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		podmažem	podmažeš	podmaže	podmažemo	podmažete	podmažu
Future	Future I	podmazat ću¹ podmazaću	podmazat ćeš¹ podmazaćeš	podmazat će¹ podmazaće	podmazat ćemo¹ podmazaćemo	podmazat ćete¹ podmazaćete	podmazat će¹ podmazaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm podmazao²	bȕdēš podmazao²	bȕdē podmazao²	bȕdēmo podmazali²	bȕdēte podmazali²	bȕdū podmazali²
Past	Perfect	podmazao sam²	podmazao si²	podmazao je²	podmazali smo²	podmazali ste²	podmazali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam podmazao²	bio si podmazao²	bio je podmazao²	bili smo podmazali²	bili ste podmazali²	bili su podmazali²
	Aorist	podmazah	podmaza	podmaza	podmazasmo	podmazaste	podmazaše
Conditional I		podmazao bih²	podmazao bi²	podmazao bi²	podmazali bismo²	podmazali biste²	podmazali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih podmazao²	bio bi podmazao²	bio bi podmazao²	bili bismo podmazali²	bili biste podmazali²	bili bi podmazali²
Imperative		—	podmaži	—	podmažimo	podmažite	—
Active past participle		podmazao m / podmazala f / podmazalo n			podmazali m / podmazale f / podmazala n
Passive past participle		podmazan m / podmazana f / podmazano n			podmazani m / podmazane f / podmazana 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 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.

Related terms

podmazívati impf

References

“podmazati” in Hrvatski jezični portal