mučati

See also: mucati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mьlčati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǔːt͡ʃati/
• Hyphenation: mu‧ča‧ti

Verb

múčati impf (Cyrillic spelling му́чати)

1. (intransitive, regionally) to be silent

Conjugation

Conjugation of mučati

Infinitive: mučati		Present verbal adverb: múčēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: múčānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mučim	mučiš	muči	mučimo	mučite	muče
Future	Future I	mučat ću1 mučaću	mučat ćeš1 mučaćeš	mučat će1 mučaće	mučat ćemo1 mučaćemo	mučat ćete1 mučaćete	mučat će1 mučaće
	Future II	bȕdēm mučao2	bȕdēš mučao2	bȕdē mučao2	bȕdēmo mučali2	bȕdēte mučali2	bȕdū mučali2
Past	Perfect	mučao sam2	mučao si2	mučao je2	mučali smo2	mučali ste2	mučali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam mučao2	bȉo si mučao2	bȉo je mučao2	bíli smo mučali2	bíli ste mučali2	bíli su mučali2
	Imperfect	mučah	mučaše	mučaše	mučasmo	mučaste	mučahu
Conditional I		mučao bih2	mučao bi2	mučao bi2	mučali bismo2	mučali biste2	mučali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih mučao2	bȉo bi mučao2	bȉo bi mučao2	bíli bismo mučali2	bíli biste mučali2	bíli bi mučali2
Imperative		—	muči	—	mučimo	mučite	—
Active past participle		mučao m / mučala f / mučalo n			mučali m / mučale f / mučala 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.

Synonyms

• (Croatian) šútjeti
• (Bosnian, Serbian) ćútati / ćútjeti

Related terms

• mȗk

Further reading

• “mučati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024