piskati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pȋsak.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pîskati/
Hyphenation: pis‧ka‧ti

Verb

pȉskati impf (Cyrillic spelling пи̏скати)

(intransitive) to pipe, whistle, utter shrilly

Conjugation

Conjugation of piskati

Infinitive: piskati		Present verbal adverb: pȉskajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pȉskānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		piskam	piskaš	piska	piskamo	piskate	piskaju
Future	Future I	piskat ću¹ piskaću	piskat ćeš¹ piskaćeš	piskat će¹ piskaće	piskat ćemo¹ piskaćemo	piskat ćete¹ piskaćete	piskat će¹ piskaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm piskao²	bȕdēš piskao²	bȕdē piskao²	bȕdēmo piskali²	bȕdēte piskali²	bȕdū piskali²
Past	Perfect	piskao sam²	piskao si²	piskao je²	piskali smo²	piskali ste²	piskali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam piskao²	bȉo si piskao²	bȉo je piskao²	bíli smo piskali²	bíli ste piskali²	bíli su piskali²
	Imperfect	piskah	piskaše	piskaše	piskasmo	piskaste	piskahu
Conditional I		piskao bih²	piskao bi²	piskao bi²	piskali bismo²	piskali biste²	piskali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih piskao²	bȉo bi piskao²	bȉo bi piskao²	bíli bismo piskali²	bíli biste piskali²	bíli bi piskali²
Imperative		—	piskaj	—	piskajmo	piskajte	—
Active past participle		piskao m / piskala f / piskalo n			piskali m / piskale f / piskala 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.

References

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