potkopati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ kopati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /potkǒpati/
• Hyphenation: pot‧ko‧pa‧ti

Verb

potkòpati pf (Cyrillic spelling потко̀пати)

1. (transitive) to dig out (from below)
2. (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	bȕdēm potkopao2	bȕdēš potkopao2	bȕdē potkopao2	bȕdēmo potkopali2	bȕdēte potkopali2	bȕdū potkopali2
Past	Perfect	potkopao sam2	potkopao si2	potkopao je2	potkopali smo2	potkopali ste2	potkopali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam potkopao2	bȉo si potkopao2	bȉo je potkopao2	bíli smo potkopali2	bíli ste potkopali2	bíli su potkopali2
	Aorist	potkopah	potkopa	potkopa	potkopasmo	potkopaste	potkopaše
Conditional I		potkopao bih2	potkopao bi2	potkopao bi2	potkopali bismo2	potkopali biste2	potkopali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih potkopao2	bȉo bi potkopao2	bȉo bi potkopao2	bíli bismo potkopali2	bíli biste potkopali2	bíli 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. 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

• potkopávati impf