puvati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

púhati (Croatian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *puxati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǔːʋati/
Hyphenation: pu‧va‧ti

Verb

púvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу́вати) (Bosnia, Serbia)

(intransitive) to blow
(intransitive) to puff, pant
(intransitive) to wheeze

Conjugation

Conjugation of puvati

Infinitive: puvati		Present verbal adverb: púvajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: púvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		puvam	puvaš	puva	puvamo	puvate	puvaju
Future	Future I	puvat ću¹ puvaću	puvat ćeš¹ puvaćeš	puvat će¹ puvaće	puvat ćemo¹ puvaćemo	puvat ćete¹ puvaćete	puvat će¹ puvaće
Future	Future II	budem puvao²	budeš puvao²	bude puvao²	budemo puvali²	budete puvali²	budu puvali²
Past	Perfect	puvao sam²	puvao si²	puvao je²	puvali smo²	puvali ste²	puvali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam puvao²	bio si puvao²	bio je puvao²	bili smo puvali²	bili ste puvali²	bili su puvali²
	Imperfect	puvah	puvaše	puvaše	puvasmo	puvaste	puvahu
Conditional I		puvao bih²	puvao bi²	puvao bi²	puvali bismo²	puvali biste²	puvali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih puvao²	bio bi puvao²	bio bi puvao²	bili bismo puvali²	bili biste puvali²	bili bi puvali²
Imperative		—	puvaj	—	puvajmo	puvajte	—
Active past participle		puvao m / puvala f / puvalo n			puvali m / puvale f / puvala 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

ispúvati
napúvati
zapúvati

Related terms

púhnuti pf