mukati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From mȗ, of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mǔːkati/
Hyphenation: mu‧ka‧ti

Verb

múkati impf (Cyrillic spelling му́кати)

(intransitive) to moo, low (of a cow or bull)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mukati

Infinitive: mukati		Present verbal adverb: múčūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: múkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mučem	mučeš	muče	mučemo	mučete	muču
Future	Future I	mukat ću¹ mukaću	mukat ćeš¹ mukaćeš	mukat će¹ mukaće	mukat ćemo¹ mukaćemo	mukat ćete¹ mukaćete	mukat će¹ mukaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm mukao²	bȕdēš mukao²	bȕdē mukao²	bȕdēmo mukali²	bȕdēte mukali²	bȕdū mukali²
Past	Perfect	mukao sam²	mukao si²	mukao je²	mukali smo²	mukali ste²	mukali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam mukao²	bȉo si mukao²	bȉo je mukao²	bíli smo mukali²	bíli ste mukali²	bíli su mukali²
	Imperfect	mukah	mukaše	mukaše	mukasmo	mukaste	mukahu
Conditional I		mukao bih²	mukao bi²	mukao bi²	mukali bismo²	mukali biste²	mukali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih mukao²	bȉo bi mukao²	bȉo bi mukao²	bíli bismo mukali²	bíli biste mukali²	bíli bi mukali²
Imperative		—	muči	—	mučimo	mučite	—
Active past participle		mukao m / mukala f / mukalo n			mukali m / mukale f / mukala 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

múknuti pf

References

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