poimati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ imati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒimati/
• Hyphenation: po‧i‧ma‧ti

Verb

pòimati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀имати)

1. (transitive) to comprehend, understand
2. (transitive) to have a notion of

Conjugation

Conjugation of poimati

Infinitive: poimati		Present verbal adverb: pòimajūći/pòimljūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pòimānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		poimam	poimaš	poima	poimamo	poimate	poimaju
Future	Future I	poimat ću1 poimaću	poimat ćeš1 poimaćeš	poimat će1 poimaće	poimat ćemo1 poimaćemo	poimat ćete1 poimaćete	poimat će1 poimaće
	Future II	bȕdēm poimao2	bȕdēš poimao2	bȕdē poimao2	bȕdēmo poimali2	bȕdēte poimali2	bȕdū poimali2
Past	Perfect	poimao sam2	poimao si2	poimao je2	poimali smo2	poimali ste2	poimali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam poimao2	bȉo si poimao2	bȉo je poimao2	bíli smo poimali2	bíli ste poimali2	bíli su poimali2
	Imperfect	poimah	poimaše	poimaše	poimasmo	poimaste	poimahu
Conditional I		poimao bih2	poimao bi2	poimao bi2	poimali bismo2	poimali biste2	poimali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih poimao2	bȉo bi poimao2	bȉo bi poimao2	bíli bismo poimali2	bíli biste poimali2	bíli bi poimali2
Imperative		—	poimaj	—	poimajmo	poimajte	—
Active past participle		poimao m / poimala f / poimalo n			poimali m / poimale f / poimala n
Passive past participle		poiman m / poimana f / poimano n			poimani m / poimane f / poimana 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.

Further reading

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