Kupujete

Kupujete is a present-tense verb form found in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and Slovenian. It is the second-person plural present tense of the imperfective verb kupovati (to buy). In languages that distinguish formal address, kupujete is used with the pronoun Vi to refer to you formally or to you all.

Grammmatical notes

As an imperfective verb, kupovati expresses an action that is ongoing, habitual, or repeated in the present. The form kupujete can be used to describe what you (plural or formal) are buying in the moment or what you regularly buy. In Slovenian, the same form is used for formal singular and for plural you. In many contexts, kupujete can appear in questions as Kupujete li? in Croatian/Serbian usage, or with similar question particles in related varieties.

Relation to related forms

Kupujete is part of the kupovati/kupiti pair common in Slavic languages. Kupovati is the imperfective counterpart meaning “to buy” in a general or repeated sense, while kupiti is the perfective form meaning “to buy” in a completed sense. Other present-tense forms of kupovati include kupujem (I buy), kupuješ (you buy, informal singular), kupuje (he/she/it buys), kupujemo (we buy), kupuju (they buy).

Usage and examples

Examples in context include: Croatian: Vi kupujete voće svaki tjedan. Slovenian: Vi kupujete kruh in mleko vsak dan. Bosnian/Serbian: Vi kupujete namirnice. These forms are common in everyday instruction, commerce conversations, and descriptive narration where the action of buying is being discussed for you plural or formal you.