potezati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /potěːzati/
Hyphenation: po‧te‧za‧ti

Verb

potézati impf (Cyrillic spelling поте́зати)

(transitive) to pull (someone)
(transitive) to draw (gun, knife, sword etc.)
(transitive, expressively) to swallow, inhale

Conjugation

Conjugation of potezati

Infinitive: potezati		Present verbal adverb: potéžūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: potézānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		potežem	potežeš	poteže	potežemo	potežete	potežu
Future	Future I	potezat ću¹ potezaću	potezat ćeš¹ potezaćeš	potezat će¹ potezaće	potezat ćemo¹ potezaćemo	potezat ćete¹ potezaćete	potezat će¹ potezaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm potezao²	bȕdēš potezao²	bȕdē potezao²	bȕdēmo potezali²	bȕdēte potezali²	bȕdū potezali²
Past	Perfect	potezao sam²	potezao si²	potezao je²	potezali smo²	potezali ste²	potezali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam potezao²	bȉo si potezao²	bȉo je potezao²	bíli smo potezali²	bíli ste potezali²	bíli su potezali²
	Imperfect	potezah	potezaše	potezaše	potezasmo	potezaste	potezahu
Conditional I		potezao bih²	potezao bi²	potezao bi²	potezali bismo²	potezali biste²	potezali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih potezao²	bȉo bi potezao²	bȉo bi potezao²	bíli bismo potezali²	bíli biste potezali²	bíli bi potezali²
Imperative		—	poteži	—	potežimo	potežite	—
Active past participle		potezao m / potezala f / potezalo n			potezali m / potezale f / potezala n
Passive past participle		potezan m / potezana f / potezano n			potezani m / potezane f / potezana 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

potégnuti pf