potkopati
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
pod- + kopati
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /potkǒpati/
- Hyphenation: pot‧ko‧pa‧ti
Verb
potkòpati pf (Cyrillic spelling потко̀пати)
- (transitive) to dig out (from below)
- (transitive, figuratively) to undermine
Conjugation
Conjugation of potkopati
| Infinitive: potkopati | Present verbal adverb: — | Past verbal adverb: potkòpāvši | 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 | potkopam | potkopaš | potkopa | potkopamo | potkopate | potkopaju | |
| Future | Future I | potkopat ću1 potkopaću | potkopat ćeš1 potkopaćeš | potkopat će1 potkopaće | potkopat ćemo1 potkopaćemo | potkopat ćete1 potkopaćete | potkopat će1 potkopaće |
| Future II | budem potkopao2 | budeš potkopao2 | bude potkopao2 | budemo potkopali2 | budete potkopali2 | budu potkopali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | potkopao sam2 | potkopao si2 | potkopao je2 | potkopali smo2 | potkopali ste2 | potkopali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bio sam potkopao2 | bio si potkopao2 | bio je potkopao2 | bili smo potkopali2 | bili ste potkopali2 | bili su potkopali2 | |
| Aorist | potkopah | potkopa | potkopa | potkopasmo | potkopaste | potkopaše | |
| Conditional I | potkopao bih2 | potkopao bi2 | potkopao bi2 | potkopali bismo2 | potkopali biste2 | potkopali bi2 | |
| Conditional II | bio bih potkopao2 | bio bi potkopao2 | bio bi potkopao2 | bili bismo potkopali2 | bili biste potkopali2 | bili bi potkopali2 | |
| Imperative | — | potkopaj | — | potkopajmo | potkopajte | — | |
| Active past participle | potkopao m / potkopala f / potkopalo n | potkopali m / potkopale f / potkopala n | |||||
| Passive past participle | potkopan m / potkopana f / potkopano n | potkopani m / potkopane f / potkopana 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. | |||||||
Related terms
- potkopávati impf