potkovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ kovati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /potkǒʋati/
• Hyphenation: pot‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

potkòvati pf (Cyrillic spelling потко̀вати)

1. (transitive) to horseshoe
2. (reflexive) to get ready, study, become well-versed in

Conjugation

Conjugation of potkovati

infinitive		potkovati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		potkòvāvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		potkujem	potkuješ	potkuje	potkujemo	potkujete	potkuju
future	future I	potkovat ću1 potkovaću	potkovat ćeš1 potkovaćeš	potkovat će1 potkovaće	potkovat ćemo1 potkovaćemo	potkovat ćete1 potkovaćete	potkovat ćē1 potkovaće
	future II	bȕdēm potkovao2	bȕdēš potkovao2	bȕdē potkovao2	bȕdēmo potkovali2	bȕdēte potkovali2	bȕdū potkovali2
past	perfect	potkovao sam2	potkovao si2	potkovao je2	potkovali smo2	potkovali ste2	potkovali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam potkovao2	bȉo si potkovao2	bȉo je potkovao2	bíli smo potkovali2	bíli ste potkovali2	bíli su potkovali2
	aorist	potkovah	potkova	potkova	potkovasmo	potkovaste	potkovaše
conditional	conditional I	potkovao bih2	potkovao bi2	potkovao bi2	potkovali bismo2	potkovali biste2	potkovali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih potkovao2	bȉo bi potkovao2	bȉo bi potkovao2	bíli bismo potkovali2	bíli biste potkovali2	bíli bi potkovali2
imperative		—	potkuj	—	potkujmo	potkujte	—
active past participle		potkovao m / potkovala f / potkovalo n			potkovali m / potkovale f / potkovala n
passive past participle		potkovan m / potkovana f / potkovano n			potkovani m / potkovane f / potkovana 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.

Related terms

• potkívati impf

Further reading

• “potkovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025