pljuvati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pľьvati.

Cognate with Bulgarian плюя (pljuja), Slovene pljuvati, Russian плевать (plevatʹ), Slovak pľuť. Non-Slavic cognates include Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō), Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌴𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽 (speiwan), Albanian shpif, Sanskrit ष्ठीवति (ṣṭhīvati, “to spit”), Old Armenian թուք (tʻukʻ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pʎûʋati/
  • Hyphenation: plju‧va‧ti

Verb

pljȕvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пљу̏вати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to spit

Conjugation
Conjugation of pljuvati
Infinitive: pljuvati Present verbal adverb: pljȕjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pljȕvānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pljujem pljuješ pljuje pljujemo pljujete pljuju
Future Future I pljuvat ću1
pljuvaću		 pljuvat ćeš1
pljuvaćeš		 pljuvat će1
pljuvaće		 pljuvat ćemo1
pljuvaćemo		 pljuvat ćete1
pljuvaćete		 pljuvat će1
pljuvaće
Future II bȕdēm pljuvao2 bȕdēš pljuvao2 bȕdē pljuvao2 bȕdēmo pljuvali2 bȕdēte pljuvali2 bȕdū pljuvali2
Past Perfect pljuvao sam2 pljuvao si2 pljuvao je2 pljuvali smo2 pljuvali ste2 pljuvali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pljuvao2 bȉo si pljuvao2 bȉo je pljuvao2 bíli smo pljuvali2 bíli ste pljuvali2 bíli su pljuvali2
Imperfect pljuvah pljuvaše pljuvaše pljuvasmo pljuvaste pljuvahu
Conditional I pljuvao bih2 pljuvao bi2 pljuvao bi2 pljuvali bismo2 pljuvali biste2 pljuvali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pljuvao2 bȉo bi pljuvao2 bȉo bi pljuvao2 bíli bismo pljuvali2 bíli biste pljuvali2 bíli bi pljuvali2
Imperative — pljuj — pljujmo pljujte —
Active past participle pljuvao m / pljuvala f / pljuvalo n pljuvali m / pljuvale f / pljuvala n
Passive past participle pljuvan m / pljuvana f / pljuvano n pljuvani m / pljuvane f / pljuvana 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
  • ispljùvati
  • popljùvati
  • upljùvati
  • zapljùvati

Further reading
  • “pljuvati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плюю́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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