popuštati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

po- +‎ puštati

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /popǔːʃtati/
• Hyphenation: po‧pu‧šta‧ti

Verb

popúštati impf (Cyrillic spelling попу́штати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to reduce, rebate, deduct (of price etc.)
2. (transitive, intransitive) to relax, loosen
3. (transitive, intransitive) to indulge sb
4. (transitive, intransitive) to cede, give away; ease
5. (transitive, intransitive) to abate, subside (of wind, current etc.)
6. (transitive, intransitive) to intermit (of pain, illness etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of popuštati

Infinitive: popuštati		Present verbal adverb: popúštajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: popúštānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		popuštam	popuštaš	popušta	popuštamo	popuštate	popuštaju
Future	Future I	popuštat ću1 popuštaću	popuštat ćeš1 popuštaćeš	popuštat će1 popuštaće	popuštat ćemo1 popuštaćemo	popuštat ćete1 popuštaćete	popuštat će1 popuštaće
	Future II	bȕdēm popuštao2	bȕdēš popuštao2	bȕdē popuštao2	bȕdēmo popuštali2	bȕdēte popuštali2	bȕdū popuštali2
Past	Perfect	popuštao sam2	popuštao si2	popuštao je2	popuštali smo2	popuštali ste2	popuštali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam popuštao2	bȉo si popuštao2	bȉo je popuštao2	bíli smo popuštali2	bíli ste popuštali2	bíli su popuštali2
	Imperfect	popuštah	popuštaše	popuštaše	popuštasmo	popuštaste	popuštahu
Conditional I		popuštao bih2	popuštao bi2	popuštao bi2	popuštali bismo2	popuštali biste2	popuštali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih popuštao2	bȉo bi popuštao2	bȉo bi popuštao2	bíli bismo popuštali2	bíli biste popuštali2	bíli bi popuštali2
Imperative		—	popuštaj	—	popuštajmo	popuštajte	—
Active past participle		popuštao m / popuštala f / popuštalo n			popuštali m / popuštale f / popuštala 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

• popùstiti pf