potkopavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

potkopávati impf (Cyrillic spelling поткопа́вати)

1. (transitive) to dig out (from below)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to undermine

Conjugation

Conjugation of potkopavati

Infinitive: potkopavati		Present verbal adverb: potkopávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: potkopávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		potkopavam	potkopavaš	potkopava	potkopavamo	potkopavate	potkopavaju
Future	Future I	potkopavat ću1 potkopavaću	potkopavat ćeš1 potkopavaćeš	potkopavat će1 potkopavaće	potkopavat ćemo1 potkopavaćemo	potkopavat ćete1 potkopavaćete	potkopavat će1 potkopavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm potkopavao2	bȕdēš potkopavao2	bȕdē potkopavao2	bȕdēmo potkopavali2	bȕdēte potkopavali2	bȕdū potkopavali2
Past	Perfect	potkopavao sam2	potkopavao si2	potkopavao je2	potkopavali smo2	potkopavali ste2	potkopavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam potkopavao2	bȉo si potkopavao2	bȉo je potkopavao2	bíli smo potkopavali2	bíli ste potkopavali2	bíli su potkopavali2
	Imperfect	potkopavah	potkopavaše	potkopavaše	potkopavasmo	potkopavaste	potkopavahu
Conditional I		potkopavao bih2	potkopavao bi2	potkopavao bi2	potkopavali bismo2	potkopavali biste2	potkopavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih potkopavao2	bȉo bi potkopavao2	bȉo bi potkopavao2	bíli bismo potkopavali2	bíli biste potkopavali2	bíli bi potkopavali2
Imperative		—	potkopavaj	—	potkopavajmo	potkopavajte	—
Active past participle		potkopavao m / potkopavala f / potkopavalo n			potkopavali m / potkopavale f / potkopavala n
Passive past participle		potkopavan m / potkopavana f / potkopavano n			potkopavani m / potkopavane f / potkopavana 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

• potkòpati pf