mekšati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /měkʃati/
• Hyphenation: mek‧ša‧ti

Verb

mèkšati impf (Cyrillic spelling мѐкшати)

1. (transitive) to soften, mellow, mollify

Conjugation

Conjugation of mekšati

Infinitive: mekšati		Present verbal adverb: mèkšajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: mèkšānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mekšam	mekšaš	mekša	mekšamo	mekšate	mekšaju
Future	Future I	mekšat ću1 mekšaću	mekšat ćeš1 mekšaćeš	mekšat će1 mekšaće	mekšat ćemo1 mekšaćemo	mekšat ćete1 mekšaćete	mekšat će1 mekšaće
	Future II	bȕdēm mekšao2	bȕdēš mekšao2	bȕdē mekšao2	bȕdēmo mekšali2	bȕdēte mekšali2	bȕdū mekšali2
Past	Perfect	mekšao sam2	mekšao si2	mekšao je2	mekšali smo2	mekšali ste2	mekšali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam mekšao2	bȉo si mekšao2	bȉo je mekšao2	bíli smo mekšali2	bíli ste mekšali2	bíli su mekšali2
	Imperfect	mekšah	mekšaše	mekšaše	mekšasmo	mekšaste	mekšahu
Conditional I		mekšao bih2	mekšao bi2	mekšao bi2	mekšali bismo2	mekšali biste2	mekšali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih mekšao2	bȉo bi mekšao2	bȉo bi mekšao2	bíli bismo mekšali2	bíli biste mekšali2	bíli bi mekšali2
Imperative		—	mekšaj	—	mekšajmo	mekšajte	—
Active past participle		mekšao m / mekšala f / mekšalo n			mekšali m / mekšale f / mekšala n
Passive past participle		mekšan m / mekšana f / mekšano n			mekšani m / mekšane f / mekšana 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

• omèkšati
• razmèkšati