ssać - please conjugate

Hi,

I'm learning a list i found of the '55 most common verbs in any language'. One of these is ssać but this is not in my 301 Polish verbs, which I thought would contain the most common, but hey, I guess scholars disagree on which are important.

Anyway, I'm assuming that ssać is not a regular verb and I can't turn it to ssam ssasz etc.. so please, how do I create the other forms of this verb?

Thanks in advance

Tony

singular:
1. ssam
2. ssasz
3. ssa

plural:
1. ssamy
2. ssacie
3. ssają

Wow, that was fast! thank you.
So it is a regular verb :)

Can you add the imperative please? :)

singular:
1. -
2. ssij
3. only comes with niech: niech ssie

plural:
1. -
2. ssijcie
3. niech ssają

How can suck be one of the most common verbs? Mothers concentrating too much on babies?

My girlfriend had a similar argument saying that with my character it's only potential use was, ahem, behind closed doors.

I'm thinking, straws, vacuum cleaners, plug holes... not really many days I use the verb suck. Still it was in this list and I'll learn it. Just a few thousand more words to go...

Just to add to your confusion: there is also WYssać :)

a perfective or to 'suck out' ?

I disagree,

Present tense
singular:
1. ssę
2. ssiesz
3. ssie
plural:
1. ssiemy
2. ssiecie
3. ssą

Imperative
3. person plural
niech ssą (other forms given by JustysiaS are correct)

Krzysztof is right here. I know this verb ;)

i've found an interesting article groups.google.com/group/pl.hum.polszczyzna/browse_thread/thread/7b76a438ffc94488/d7b1643c9f959d16 - ssę czy ssam? and even though ssę and so on is the version a dictionary will give you, people in Poland use ssam. i don't think i ever even used ssę ha ha. ssam, ssasz etc. are the commonly used versions which is quite funny considering they are supposed to be wrong.


yeah right, didn't see you rush over here with the *proper* conjugation when the question was first asked. nobody else complained about it until Krzysztof did, then you pop up and say "i knew it". pffft.

It's regional, I guess.
I'm from central Poland and I always use 'ssę', 'ssie' etc.
There are some verbs with different endings ("-ę" / "-am" opposition in 1st person singular) depending on the area where they are used, for example:

depczę - deptam
głaszczę - głaskam
I've been using "depczę", "głaszczę" for the most of my life, then living in Wielkopolska I found out that the forms like "deptam", "głaskam" are correct too (because at first I thought it's a common mistake in Poznań :)

it looks like it in the case of ssam/ssę. i tested my friend from southern Poland and asked what was the 1st person singular of ssać and she said ssam as well. when i told her about ssę she said she's never heard about it lol. Polish is a funky language and even the natives get confused :)

I agree with Krzysztof. I would say

ja ssę
ty ssiesz
on ssie

my ssiemy
wy ssiecie
oni ssą

perfective / dokonany: wyssać

Maybe it's a bit late, but still...

An elderly gentleman from the Ukraine once corrected me most vehemently regarding yet another verb: I said "RozumieM", and he chimed in immediately "RozumiĘ"!!

Might he have been guilty of first-language interference from his native Ukrainian?