ponukati

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

pònukati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀нукати)

  1. to lead on, to lead
  2. to exhort, to encourage
  3. to induce, to prompt

Conjugation

Conjugation of ponukati
infinitive ponukati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb pònukāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present ponukam ponukaš ponuka ponukamo ponukate ponukaju
future future I ponukat ću1
ponukaću
ponukat ćeš1
ponukaćeš
ponukat će1
ponukaće
ponukat ćemo1
ponukaćemo
ponukat ćete1
ponukaćete
ponukat ćē1
ponukaće
future II bȕdēm ponukao2 bȕdēš ponukao2 bȕdē ponukao2 bȕdēmo ponukali2 bȕdēte ponukali2 bȕdū ponukali2
past perfect ponukao sam2 ponukao si2 ponukao je2 ponukali smo2 ponukali ste2 ponukali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam ponukao2 bȉo si ponukao2 bȉo je ponukao2 bíli smo ponukali2 bíli ste ponukali2 bíli su ponukali2
aorist ponukah ponuka ponuka ponukasmo ponukaste ponukaše
conditional conditional I ponukao bih2 ponukao bi2 ponukao bi2 ponukali bismo2 ponukali biste2 ponukali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih ponukao2 bȉo bi ponukao2 bȉo bi ponukao2 bíli bismo ponukali2 bíli biste ponukali2 bíli bi ponukali2
imperative ponukaj ponukajmo ponukajte
active past participle ponukao m / ponukala f / ponukalo n ponukali m / ponukale f / ponukala n
passive past participle ponukan m / ponukana f / ponukano n ponukani m / ponukane f / ponukana 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.

Further reading

  • ponukati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026