lokati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lokati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǒkati/
• Hyphenation: lo‧ka‧ti

Verb

lòkati impf (Cyrillic spelling ло̀кати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to drink, lap (suddenly, with an accompanying sound)
2. (colloquial, intransitive) to drink, guzzle (consume alcohol), especially excessively

Conjugation

Conjugation of lokati

Infinitive: lokati		Present verbal adverb: lȍčūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lòkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ločem	ločeš	loče	ločemo	ločete	loču
Future	Future I	lokat ću1 lokaću	lokat ćeš1 lokaćeš	lokat će1 lokaće	lokat ćemo1 lokaćemo	lokat ćete1 lokaćete	lokat će1 lokaće
	Future II	bȕdēm lokao2	bȕdēš lokao2	bȕdē lokao2	bȕdēmo lokali2	bȕdēte lokali2	bȕdū lokali2
Past	Perfect	lokao sam2	lokao si2	lokao je2	lokali smo2	lokali ste2	lokali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam lokao2	bȉo si lokao2	bȉo je lokao2	bíli smo lokali2	bíli ste lokali2	bíli su lokali2
	Imperfect	lokah	lokaše	lokaše	lokasmo	lokaste	lokahu
Conditional I		lokao bih2	lokao bi2	lokao bi2	lokali bismo2	lokali biste2	lokali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih lokao2	bȉo bi lokao2	bȉo bi lokao2	bíli bismo lokali2	bíli biste lokali2	bíli bi lokali2
Imperative		—	loči	—	ločimo	ločite	—
Active past participle		lokao m / lokala f / lokalo n			lokali m / lokale f / lokala 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.

Derived terms

• polòkati
• ìzlokati

 

References

• “lokati” in Hrvatski jezični portal