gakati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• gȁktati

Etymology

From onomatopoeic gȃ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎːkati/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ka‧ti

Verb

gákati impf (Cyrillic spelling га́кати)

1. (intransitive) to quack, cackle (of geese)
2. (intransitive) to caw (of crows)

Conjugation

Conjugation of gakati

infinitive		gakati
present verbal adverb		gáčūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		gákānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		gačem	gačeš	gače	gačemo	gačete	gaču
future	future I	gakat ću1 gakaću	gakat ćeš1 gakaćeš	gakat će1 gakaće	gakat ćemo1 gakaćemo	gakat ćete1 gakaćete	gakat ćе̄1 gakaće
	future II	bȕdēm gakao2	bȕdēš gakao2	bȕdē gakao2	bȕdēmo gakali2	bȕdēte gakali2	bȕdū gakali2
past	perfect	gakao sam2	gakao si2	gakao je2	gakali smo2	gakali ste2	gakali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam gakao2	bȉo si gakao2	bȉo je gakao2	bíli smo gakali2	bíli ste gakali2	bíli su gakali2
	imperfect	gakah	gakaše	gakaše	gakasmo	gakaste	gakahu
conditional	conditional I	gakao bih2	gakao bi2	gakao bi2	gakali bismo2	gakali biste2	gakali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih gakao2	bȉo bi gakao2	bȉo bi gakao2	bíli bismo gakali2	bíli biste gakali2	bíli bi gakali2
imperative		—	gači	—	gačimo	gačite	—
active past participle		gakao m / gakala f / gakalo n			gakali m / gakale f / gakala 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

• gáknuti impf