duhnuti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dúvnuti (Serbia)
• dúnuti (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǔːxnuti/
• Hyphenation: duh‧nu‧ti

Verb

dúhnuti pf (Cyrillic spelling ду́хнути) (Croatian and Bosnian)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of duhnuti

Infinitive: duhnuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: dúhnūvši		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		duhnem	duhneš	duhne	duhnemo	duhnete	duhnu
Future	Future I	duhnut ću1 duhnuću	duhnut ćeš1 duhnućeš	duhnut će1 duhnuće	duhnut ćemo1 duhnućemo	duhnut ćete1 duhnućete	duhnut će1 duhnuće
	Future II	bȕdēm duhnuo2	bȕdēš duhnuo2	bȕdē duhnuo2	bȕdēmo duhnuli2	bȕdēte duhnuli2	bȕdū duhnuli2
Past	Perfect	duhnuo sam2	duhnuo si2	duhnuo je2	duhnuli smo2	duhnuli ste2	duhnuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam duhnuo2	bȉo si duhnuo2	bȉo je duhnuo2	bíli smo duhnuli2	bíli ste duhnuli2	bíli su duhnuli2
	Aorist	duhnuh	duhnu	duhnu	duhnusmo	duhnuste	duhnuše
Conditional I		duhnuo bih2	duhnuo bi2	duhnuo bi2	duhnuli bismo2	duhnuli biste2	duhnuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih duhnuo2	bȉo bi duhnuo2	bȉo bi duhnuo2	bíli bismo duhnuli2	bíli biste duhnuli2	bíli bi duhnuli2
Imperative		—	duhni	—	duhnimo	duhnite	—
Active past participle		duhnuo m / duhnula f / duhnulo n			duhnuli m / duhnule f / duhnula n
Passive past participle		duhnut m / duhnuta f / duhnuto n			duhnuti m / duhnute f / duhnuta 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

• dúhati impf

Further reading

• “duhnuti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024