postupiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postǫpiti. Compare Czech postoupit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /postǔːpiti/
• Hyphenation: po‧stu‧pi‧ti

Verb

postúpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling посту́пити)

1. (intransitive) to act, proceed

Conjugation

Conjugation of postupiti

Infinitive: postupiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: postúpīvši		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		postupim	postupiš	postupi	postupimo	postupite	postupe
Future	Future I	postupit ću1 postupiću	postupit ćeš1 postupićeš	postupit će1 postupiće	postupit ćemo1 postupićemo	postupit ćete1 postupićete	postupit će1 postupiće
	Future II	bȕdēm postupio2	bȕdēš postupio2	bȕdē postupio2	bȕdēmo postupili2	bȕdēte postupili2	bȕdū postupili2
Past	Perfect	postupio sam2	postupio si2	postupio je2	postupili smo2	postupili ste2	postupili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam postupio2	bȉo si postupio2	bȉo je postupio2	bíli smo postupili2	bíli ste postupili2	bíli su postupili2
	Aorist	postupih	postupi	postupi	postupismo	postupiste	postupiše
Conditional I		postupio bih2	postupio bi2	postupio bi2	postupili bismo2	postupili biste2	postupili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih postupio2	bȉo bi postupio2	bȉo bi postupio2	bíli bismo postupili2	bíli biste postupili2	bíli bi postupili2
Imperative		—	postupi	—	postupimo	postupite	—
Active past participle		postupio m / postupila f / postupilo n			postupili m / postupile f / postupila 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

• postúpati impf