piskati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pȋsak.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

pȉskati impf (Cyrillic spelling пи̏скати)

  1. (intransitive) to pipe, whistle, utter shrilly

Conjugation

Conjugation of piskati
infinitive piskati
present verbal adverb pȉskajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pȉskānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
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 ćē1
piskaće
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 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), 2006–2025