duhati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dúvati (Serbia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *duxati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǔːxati/
• Hyphenation: du‧ha‧ti

Verb

dúhati impf (Cyrillic spelling ду́хати) (Croatia, Bosnia)

1. (intransitive) to blow
2. (intransitive) to puff, pant
3. (intransitive) to wheeze

Conjugation

Conjugation of duhati

Infinitive: duhati		Present verbal adverb: dúhajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dúhānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dušem	dušeš	duše	dušemo	dušete	dušu
Future	Future I	duhat ću1 duhaću	duhat ćeš1 duhaćeš	duhat će1 duhaće	duhat ćemo1 duhaćemo	duhat ćete1 duhaćete	duhat će1 duhaće
	Future II	bȕdēm duhao2	bȕdēš duhao2	bȕdē duhao2	bȕdēmo duhali2	bȕdēte duhali2	bȕdū duhali2
Past	Perfect	duhao sam2	duhao si2	duhao je2	duhali smo2	duhali ste2	duhali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam duhao2	bȉo si duhao2	bȉo je duhao2	bíli smo duhali2	bíli ste duhali2	bíli su duhali2
	Imperfect	duhah	duhaše	duhaše	duhasmo	duhaste	duhahu
Conditional I		duhao bih2	duhao bi2	duhao bi2	duhali bismo2	duhali biste2	duhali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih duhao2	bȉo bi duhao2	bȉo bi duhao2	bíli bismo duhali2	bíli biste duhali2	bíli bi duhali2
Imperative		—	duši	—	dušimo	dušite	—
Active past participle		duhao m / duhala f / duhalo n			duhali m / duhale f / duhala n
Passive past participle		duhan m / duhana f / duhano n			duhani m / duhane f / duhana 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

• dúhnuti pf

Further reading

• “duhati” in Hrvatski jezični portal