potkopati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ kopati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /potkǒpati/
Hyphenation: pot‧ko‧pa‧ti

Verb

potkòpati pf (Cyrillic spelling потко̀пати)

(transitive) to dig out (from below)
(transitive, figuratively) to undermine

Conjugation

Conjugation of potkopati

Infinitive: potkopati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: potkòpāvši		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		potkopam	potkopaš	potkopa	potkopamo	potkopate	potkopaju
Future	Future I	potkopat ću¹ potkopaću	potkopat ćeš¹ potkopaćeš	potkopat će¹ potkopaće	potkopat ćemo¹ potkopaćemo	potkopat ćete¹ potkopaćete	potkopat će¹ potkopaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm potkopao²	bȕdēš potkopao²	bȕdē potkopao²	bȕdēmo potkopali²	bȕdēte potkopali²	bȕdū potkopali²
Past	Perfect	potkopao sam²	potkopao si²	potkopao je²	potkopali smo²	potkopali ste²	potkopali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam potkopao²	bȉo si potkopao²	bȉo je potkopao²	bíli smo potkopali²	bíli ste potkopali²	bíli su potkopali²
	Aorist	potkopah	potkopa	potkopa	potkopasmo	potkopaste	potkopaše
Conditional I		potkopao bih²	potkopao bi²	potkopao bi²	potkopali bismo²	potkopali biste²	potkopali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih potkopao²	bȉo bi potkopao²	bȉo bi potkopao²	bíli bismo potkopali²	bíli biste potkopali²	bíli bi potkopali²
Imperative		—	potkopaj	—	potkopajmo	potkopajte	—
Active past participle		potkopao m / potkopala f / potkopalo n			potkopali m / potkopale f / potkopala n
Passive past participle		potkopan m / potkopana f / potkopano n			potkopani m / potkopane f / potkopana 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

potkopávati impf