motati

Latin

Participle

mōtātī

1. inflection of mōtātus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *motati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǒtati/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ta‧ti

Verb

mòtati impf (Cyrillic spelling мо̀тати)

1. (transitive) to wind up, roll up
2. (transitive) to wrap
3. (reflexive) to whirl, spin

Conjugation

Conjugation of motati

Infinitive: motati		Present verbal adverb: mòtajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: mòtānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		motam	motaš	mota	motamo	motate	motaju
Future	Future I	motat ću1 motaću	motat ćeš1 motaćeš	motat će1 motaće	motat ćemo1 motaćemo	motat ćete1 motaćete	motat će1 motaće
	Future II	bȕdēm motao2	bȕdēš motao2	bȕdē motao2	bȕdēmo motali2	bȕdēte motali2	bȕdū motali2
Past	Perfect	motao sam2	motao si2	motao je2	motali smo2	motali ste2	motali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam motao2	bȉo si motao2	bȉo je motao2	bíli smo motali2	bíli ste motali2	bíli su motali2
	Imperfect	motah	motaše	motaše	motasmo	motaste	motahu
Conditional I		motao bih2	motao bi2	motao bi2	motali bismo2	motali biste2	motali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih motao2	bȉo bi motao2	bȉo bi motao2	bíli bismo motali2	bíli biste motali2	bíli bi motali2
Imperative		—	motaj	—	motajmo	motajte	—
Active past participle		motao m / motala f / motalo n			motali m / motale f / motala n
Passive past participle		motan m / motana f / motano n			motani m / motane f / motana 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

• izmòtati
• namòtati
• odmòtati
• omòtati
• premòtati
• razmòtati
• smòtati
• umòtati
• zamòtati

Further reading

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