rukovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/rûkoʋati/
• Hyphenation:ru‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

rȕkovatiimpf(Cyrillic spellingру̏ковати)

1. (intransitive,with instrumental)tohandle,manage,operate
2. (reflexive)toshake hands

Conjugation

Conjugation ofrukovati

Infinitive:rukovati		Present verbal adverb:rȕkujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun:rȕkovānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on/ona/ono	mi	vi	oni/one/ona
Present		rukujem	rukuješ	rukuje	rukujemo	rukujete	rukuju
Future	Future I	rukovatću1 rukovaću	rukovatćeš1 rukovaćeš	rukovatće1 rukovaće	rukovatćemo1 rukovaćemo	rukovatćete1 rukovaćete	rukovatće1 rukovaće
	Future II	bȕdēmrukovao2	bȕdēšrukovao2	bȕdērukovao2	bȕdēmorukovali2	bȕdēterukovali2	bȕdūrukovali2
Past	Perfect	rukovaosam2	rukovaosi2	rukovaoje2	rukovalismo2	rukovaliste2	rukovalisu2
	Pluperfect3	bȉosamrukovao2	bȉosirukovao2	bȉojerukovao2	bílismorukovali2	bílisterukovali2	bílisurukovali2
	Imperfect	rukovah	rukovaše	rukovaše	rukovasmo	rukovaste	rukovahu
Conditional I		rukovaobih2	rukovaobi2	rukovaobi2	rukovalibismo2	rukovalibiste2	rukovalibi2
Conditional II4		bȉobihrukovao2	bȉobirukovao2	bȉobirukovao2	bílibismorukovali2	bílibisterukovali2	bílibirukovali2
Imperative		—	rukuj	—	rukujmo	rukujte	—
Active past participle		rukovaom/rukovalaf/rukovalon			rukovalim/rukovalef/rukovalan
1Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. 2For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. 3Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verbbiti(to be) is routinely dropped. 4Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verbbiti(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

• “rukovati”,inHrvatski jezični portal(in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2024