puvati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• púhati (Croatia)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *puxati

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǔːʋati/
• Hyphenation: pu‧va‧ti

Verb

púvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пу́вати) (Bosnia, Serbia)

1. (intransitive) to blow
2. (intransitive) to puff, pant
3. (intransitive) to wheeze

Conjugation

Conjugation of puvati

Infinitive: puvati		Present verbal adverb: púvajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: púvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		puvam	puvaš	puva	puvamo	puvate	puvaju
Future	Future I	puvat ću1 puvaću	puvat ćeš1 puvaćeš	puvat će1 puvaće	puvat ćemo1 puvaćemo	puvat ćete1 puvaćete	puvat će1 puvaće
	Future II	bȕdēm puvao2	bȕdēš puvao2	bȕdē puvao2	bȕdēmo puvali2	bȕdēte puvali2	bȕdū puvali2
Past	Perfect	puvao sam2	puvao si2	puvao je2	puvali smo2	puvali ste2	puvali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam puvao2	bȉo si puvao2	bȉo je puvao2	bíli smo puvali2	bíli ste puvali2	bíli su puvali2
	Imperfect	puvah	puvaše	puvaše	puvasmo	puvaste	puvahu
Conditional I		puvao bih2	puvao bi2	puvao bi2	puvali bismo2	puvali biste2	puvali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih puvao2	bȉo bi puvao2	bȉo bi puvao2	bíli bismo puvali2	bíli biste puvali2	bíli bi puvali2
Imperative		—	puvaj	—	puvajmo	puvajte	—
Active past participle		puvao m / puvala f / puvalo n			puvali m / puvale f / puvala 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

• ispúvati
• napúvati
• zapúvati

 

Related terms

• púhnuti pf