isticati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From iz- +‎ ticati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐstit͡sati/
• Hyphenation: is‧ti‧ca‧ti

Verb

ìsticati impf (Cyrillic spelling ѝстицати)

1. (transitive) to emphasize, underline, point out
2. (transitive) to raise, hoist (banner, flag)
3. (transitive) to drain out
4. (reflexive) to stand out, distinguish oneself (by some virtue or skill)

Conjugation

Conjugation of isticati

Infinitive: isticati		Present verbal adverb: ìstičūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ìsticānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ističem	ističeš	ističe	ističemo	ističete	ističu
Future	Future I	isticat ću1 isticaću	isticat ćeš1 isticaćeš	isticat će1 isticaće	isticat ćemo1 isticaćemo	isticat ćete1 isticaćete	isticat će1 isticaće
	Future II	bȕdēm isticao2	bȕdēš isticao2	bȕdē isticao2	bȕdēmo isticali2	bȕdēte isticali2	bȕdū isticali2
Past	Perfect	isticao sam2	isticao si2	isticao je2	isticali smo2	isticali ste2	isticali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam isticao2	bȉo si isticao2	bȉo je isticao2	bíli smo isticali2	bíli ste isticali2	bíli su isticali2
	Imperfect	isticah	isticaše	isticaše	isticasmo	isticaste	isticahu
Conditional I		isticao bih2	isticao bi2	isticao bi2	isticali bismo2	isticali biste2	isticali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih isticao2	bȉo bi isticao2	bȉo bi isticao2	bíli bismo isticali2	bíli biste isticali2	bíli bi isticali2
Imperative		—	ističi	—	ističimo	ističite	—
Active past participle		isticao m / isticala f / isticalo n			isticali m / isticale f / isticala n
Passive past participle		istican m / isticana f / isticano n			isticani m / isticane f / isticana 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

• istàknuti pf

Further reading

• “isticati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024