postupati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

po- +‎ stupati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /postǔːpati/
Hyphenation: po‧stu‧pa‧ti

Verb

postúpati impf (Cyrillic spelling посту́пати)

(intransitive) to act, proceed
postupati prema nekome, postupati s nekim — to treat, to act toward somebody

postupati s nečim — to handle, operate

Conjugation

Conjugation of postupati

Infinitive: postupati		Present verbal adverb: postúpajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: postúpānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		postupam	postupaš	postupa	postupamo	postupate	postupaju
Future	Future I	postupat ću¹ postupaću	postupat ćeš¹ postupaćeš	postupat će¹ postupaće	postupat ćemo¹ postupaćemo	postupat ćete¹ postupaćete	postupat će¹ postupaće
Future	Future II	budem postupao²	budeš postupao²	bude postupao²	budemo postupali²	budete postupali²	budu postupali²
Past	Perfect	postupao sam²	postupao si²	postupao je²	postupali smo²	postupali ste²	postupali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam postupao²	bio si postupao²	bio je postupao²	bili smo postupali²	bili ste postupali²	bili su postupali²
	Imperfect	postupah	postupaše	postupaše	postupasmo	postupaste	postupahu
Conditional I		postupao bih²	postupao bi²	postupao bi²	postupali bismo²	postupali biste²	postupali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih postupao²	bio bi postupao²	bio bi postupao²	bili bismo postupali²	bili biste postupali²	bili bi postupali²
Imperative		—	postupaj	—	postupajmo	postupajte	—
Active past participle		postupao m / postupala f / postupalo n			postupali m / postupale f / postupala 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

postúpiti pf

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