otjecati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• òticati (Bosnia, Serbia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒtjet͡sati/
• Hyphenation: o‧tje‧ca‧ti

Verb

òtjecati impf (Cyrillic spelling о̀тјецати)

1. (intransitive, Croatia) to flow off, drain off (of a moving water)

Conjugation

Conjugation of otjecati

Infinitive: otjecati		Present verbal adverb: òtječūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: òtjecānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		otječem	otječeš	otječe	otječemo	otječete	otječu
Future	Future I	otjecat ću1 otjecaću	otjecat ćeš1 otjecaćeš	otjecat će1 otjecaće	otjecat ćemo1 otjecaćemo	otjecat ćete1 otjecaćete	otjecat će1 otjecaće
	Future II	bȕdēm otjecao2	bȕdēš otjecao2	bȕdē otjecao2	bȕdēmo otjecali2	bȕdēte otjecali2	bȕdū otjecali2
Past	Perfect	otjecao sam2	otjecao si2	otjecao je2	otjecali smo2	otjecali ste2	otjecali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam otjecao2	bȉo si otjecao2	bȉo je otjecao2	bíli smo otjecali2	bíli ste otjecali2	bíli su otjecali2
	Imperfect	otjecah	otjecaše	otjecaše	otjecasmo	otjecaste	otjecahu
Conditional I		otjecao bih2	otjecao bi2	otjecao bi2	otjecali bismo2	otjecali biste2	otjecali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih otjecao2	bȉo bi otjecao2	bȉo bi otjecao2	bíli bismo otjecali2	bíli biste otjecali2	bíli bi otjecali2
Imperative		—	otječi	—	otječimo	otječite	—
Active past participle		otjecao m / otjecala f / otjecalo n			otjecali m / otjecale f / otjecala 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

• òteći pf

Further reading

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