laćati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From lȁtiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lât͡ɕati/
• Hyphenation: la‧ća‧ti

Verb

lȁćati impf (Cyrillic spelling ла̏ћати)

1. imperfective form of lȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of laćati

Infinitive: laćati		Present verbal adverb: lȁćajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lȁćānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		laćam	laćaš	laća	laćamo	laćate	laćaju
Future	Future I	laćat ću1 laćaću	laćat ćeš1 laćaćeš	laćat će1 laćaće	laćat ćemo1 laćaćemo	laćat ćete1 laćaćete	laćat će1 laćaće
	Future II	bȕdēm laćao2	bȕdēš laćao2	bȕdē laćao2	bȕdēmo laćali2	bȕdēte laćali2	bȕdū laćali2
Past	Perfect	laćao sam2	laćao si2	laćao je2	laćali smo2	laćali ste2	laćali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam laćao2	bȉo si laćao2	bȉo je laćao2	bíli smo laćali2	bíli ste laćali2	bíli su laćali2
	Imperfect	laćah	laćaše	laćaše	laćasmo	laćaste	laćahu
Conditional I		laćao bih2	laćao bi2	laćao bi2	laćali bismo2	laćali biste2	laćali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih laćao2	bȉo bi laćao2	bȉo bi laćao2	bíli bismo laćali2	bíli biste laćali2	bíli bi laćali2
Imperative		—	laćaj	—	laćajmo	laćajte	—
Active past participle		laćao m / laćala f / laćalo n			laćali m / laćale f / laćala 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.

References

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