nicati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nît͡sati/
Hyphenation: ni‧ca‧ti

Verb

nȉcati impf (Cyrillic spelling ни̏цати)

Conjugation

Conjugation of nicati

Infinitive: nicati		Present verbal adverb: nȉčūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: nȉcānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ničem	ničeš	niče	ničemo	ničete	niču
Future	Future I	nicat ću¹ nicaću	nicat ćeš¹ nicaćeš	nicat će¹ nicaće	nicat ćemo¹ nicaćemo	nicat ćete¹ nicaćete	nicat će¹ nicaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm nicao²	bȕdēš nicao²	bȕdē nicao²	bȕdēmo nicali²	bȕdēte nicali²	bȕdū nicali²
Past	Perfect	nicao sam²	nicao si²	nicao je²	nicali smo²	nicali ste²	nicali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam nicao²	bȉo si nicao²	bȉo je nicao²	bíli smo nicali²	bíli ste nicali²	bíli su nicali²
	Imperfect	nicah	nicaše	nicaše	nicasmo	nicaste	nicahu
Conditional I		nicao bih²	nicao bi²	nicao bi²	nicali bismo²	nicali biste²	nicali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih nicao²	bȉo bi nicao²	bȉo bi nicao²	bíli bismo nicali²	bíli biste nicali²	bíli bi nicali²
Imperative		—	niči	—	ničimo	ničite	—
Active past participle		nicao m / nicala f / nicalo n			nicali m / nicale f / nicala 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

nȉknuti pf