postupati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ stupati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /postǔːpati/
• Hyphenation: po‧stu‧pa‧ti

Verb

postúpati impf (Cyrillic spelling посту́пати)

1. (intransitive) to act, proceed

   postupati prema nekome, postupati s nekim — to treat, to act toward somebody

   postupati s nečim — to handle, operate

Conjugation

Conjugation of postupati

Infinitive: postupati		Present verbal adverb: postúpajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: postúpānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		postupam	postupaš	postupa	postupamo	postupate	postupaju
Future	Future I	postupat ću1 postupaću	postupat ćeš1 postupaćeš	postupat će1 postupaće	postupat ćemo1 postupaćemo	postupat ćete1 postupaćete	postupat će1 postupaće
	Future II	bȕdēm postupao2	bȕdēš postupao2	bȕdē postupao2	bȕdēmo postupali2	bȕdēte postupali2	bȕdū postupali2
Past	Perfect	postupao sam2	postupao si2	postupao je2	postupali smo2	postupali ste2	postupali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam postupao2	bȉo si postupao2	bȉo je postupao2	bíli smo postupali2	bíli ste postupali2	bíli su postupali2
	Imperfect	postupah	postupaše	postupaše	postupasmo	postupaste	postupahu
Conditional I		postupao bih2	postupao bi2	postupao bi2	postupali bismo2	postupali biste2	postupali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih postupao2	bȉo bi postupao2	bȉo bi postupao2	bíli bismo postupali2	bíli biste postupali2	bíli bi postupali2
Imperative		—	postupaj	—	postupajmo	postupajte	—
Active past participle		postupao m / postupala f / postupalo n			postupali m / postupale f / postupala 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.

Related terms

• postúpiti pf