mukati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From mȗ, of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

múkati impf (Cyrillic spelling му́кати)

1. (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 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 (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024