psovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsovati, from *pьsъ (“dog”), the original sense being “to treat like a dog, to talk to like a dog”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /psǒʋati/
• Hyphenation: pso‧va‧ti

Verb

psòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling псо̀вати)

1. (intransitive) to swear, curse, cuss

Conjugation

Conjugation of psovati

Infinitive: psovati		Present verbal adverb: psȕjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: psòvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		psujem	psuješ	psuje	psujemo	psujete	psuju
Future	Future I	psovat ću1 psovaću	psovat ćeš1 psovaćeš	psovat će1 psovaće	psovat ćemo1 psovaćemo	psovat ćete1 psovaćete	psovat će1 psovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm psovao2	bȕdēš psovao2	bȕdē psovao2	bȕdēmo psovali2	bȕdēte psovali2	bȕdū psovali2
Past	Perfect	psovao sam2	psovao si2	psovao je2	psovali smo2	psovali ste2	psovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam psovao2	bȉo si psovao2	bȉo je psovao2	bíli smo psovali2	bíli ste psovali2	bíli su psovali2
	Imperfect	psovah	psovaše	psovaše	psovasmo	psovaste	psovahu
Conditional I		psovao bih2	psovao bi2	psovao bi2	psovali bismo2	psovali biste2	psovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih psovao2	bȉo bi psovao2	bȉo bi psovao2	bíli bismo psovali2	bíli biste psovali2	bíli bi psovali2
Imperative		—	psuj	—	psujmo	psujte	—
Active past participle		psovao m / psovala f / psovalo n			psovali m / psovale f / psovala n
Passive past participle		psovan m / psovana f / psovano n			psovani m / psovane f / psovana 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.

Derived terms

• ispsòvati
• opsòvati