pokušati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

po- +‎ kušati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǒkuʃati/
Hyphenation: po‧ku‧ša‧ti

Verb

pòkušati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀кушати)

(intransitive) to try, attempt

Conjugation

Conjugation of pokušati

Infinitive: pokušati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòkušāvši		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		pokušam	pokušaš	pokuša	pokušamo	pokušate	pokušaju
Future	Future I	pokušat ću¹ pokušaću	pokušat ćeš¹ pokušaćeš	pokušat će¹ pokušaće	pokušat ćemo¹ pokušaćemo	pokušat ćete¹ pokušaćete	pokušat će¹ pokušaće
Future	Future II	budem pokušao²	budeš pokušao²	bude pokušao²	budemo pokušali²	budete pokušali²	budu pokušali²
Past	Perfect	pokušao sam²	pokušao si²	pokušao je²	pokušali smo²	pokušali ste²	pokušali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam pokušao²	bio si pokušao²	bio je pokušao²	bili smo pokušali²	bili ste pokušali²	bili su pokušali²
	Aorist	pokušah	pokuša	pokuša	pokušasmo	pokušaste	pokušaše
Conditional I		pokušao bih²	pokušao bi²	pokušao bi²	pokušali bismo²	pokušali biste²	pokušali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih pokušao²	bio bi pokušao²	bio bi pokušao²	bili bismo pokušali²	bili biste pokušali²	bili bi pokušali²
Imperative		—	pokušaj	—	pokušajmo	pokušajte	—
Active past participle		pokušao m / pokušala f / pokušalo n			pokušali m / pokušale f / pokušala 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. * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

Synonyms

probati

References

“pokušati” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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