postupiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postǫpiti. Compare Czech postoupit.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /postǔːpiti/
Hyphenation: po‧stu‧pi‧ti

Verb

postúpiti pf (Cyrillic spelling посту́пити)

(intransitive) to act, proceed

Conjugation

Conjugation of postupiti

Infinitive: postupiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: postúpīvši		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		postupim	postupiš	postupi	postupimo	postupite	postupe
Future	Future I	postupit ću¹ postupiću	postupit ćeš¹ postupićeš	postupit će¹ postupiće	postupit ćemo¹ postupićemo	postupit ćete¹ postupićete	postupit će¹ postupiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm postupio²	bȕdēš postupio²	bȕdē postupio²	bȕdēmo postupili²	bȕdēte postupili²	bȕdū postupili²
Past	Perfect	postupio sam²	postupio si²	postupio je²	postupili smo²	postupili ste²	postupili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam postupio²	bȉo si postupio²	bȉo je postupio²	bíli smo postupili²	bíli ste postupili²	bíli su postupili²
	Aorist	postupih	postupi	postupi	postupismo	postupiste	postupiše
Conditional I		postupio bih²	postupio bi²	postupio bi²	postupili bismo²	postupili biste²	postupili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih postupio²	bȉo bi postupio²	bȉo bi postupio²	bíli bismo postupili²	bíli biste postupili²	bíli bi postupili²
Imperative		—	postupi	—	postupimo	postupite	—
Active past participle		postupio m / postupila f / postupilo n			postupili m / postupile f / postupila 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

postúpati impf