pokušati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From po- +‎ kušati.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /pǒkuʃati/
Hyphenation: po‧ku‧ša‧ti

Verb edit

pòkušati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀кушати)

(intransitive) to try, attempt
Synonym: probati

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of pokušati

Infinitive: pokušati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòkušāvši		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		pokušam	pokušaš	pokuša	pokušamo	pokušate	pokušaju
Future	Future I	pokušat ću¹ pokušaću	pokušat ćeš¹ pokušaćeš	pokušat će¹ pokušaće	pokušat ćemo¹ pokušaćemo	pokušat ćete¹ pokušaćete	pokušat će¹ pokušaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm pokušao²	bȕdēš pokušao²	bȕdē pokušao²	bȕdēmo pokušali²	bȕdēte pokušali²	bȕdū pokušali²
Past	Perfect	pokušao sam²	pokušao si²	pokušao je²	pokušali smo²	pokušali ste²	pokušali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam pokušao²	bȉo si pokušao²	bȉo je pokušao²	bíli smo pokušali²	bíli ste pokušali²	bíli su pokušali²
	Aorist	pokušah	pokuša	pokuša	pokušasmo	pokušaste	pokušaše
Conditional I		pokušao bih²	pokušao bi²	pokušao bi²	pokušali bismo²	pokušali biste²	pokušali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih pokušao²	bȉo bi pokušao²	bȉo bi pokušao²	bíli bismo pokušali²	bíli biste pokušali²	bíli bi pokušali²
Imperative		—	pokušaj	—	pokušajmo	pokušajte	—
Active past participle		pokušao m / pokušala f / pokušalo n			pokušali m / pokušale f / pokušala 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 edit

pokušávati impf
pokušaj
pokus
pokušati

References edit

“pokušati” in Hrvatski jezični portal