poticati
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pòticati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀тицати)
- (Croatia, Bosnia, transitive) to encourage, urge, goad, induce
- Synonym: (Serbian) pòdsticati
- (Serbia, intransitive) to originate, descend
- Synonym: (Croatian, Bosnian) pòtjecati
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of poticati
| Infinitive: poticati | Present verbal adverb: pòtičūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: pòticānje | ||||
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| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | potičem | potičeš | potiče | potičemo | potičete | potiču | |
| Future | Future I | poticat ću1 poticaću |
poticat ćeš1 poticaćeš |
poticat će1 poticaće |
poticat ćemo1 poticaćemo |
poticat ćete1 poticaćete |
poticat će1 poticaće |
| Future II | bȕdēm poticao2 | bȕdēš poticao2 | bȕdē poticao2 | bȕdēmo poticali2 | bȕdēte poticali2 | bȕdū poticali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | poticao sam2 | poticao si2 | poticao je2 | poticali smo2 | poticali ste2 | poticali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam poticao2 | bȉo si poticao2 | bȉo je poticao2 | bíli smo poticali2 | bíli ste poticali2 | bíli su poticali2 | |
| Imperfect | poticah | poticaše | poticaše | poticasmo | poticaste | poticahu | |
| Conditional I | poticao bih2 | poticao bi2 | poticao bi2 | poticali bismo2 | poticali biste2 | poticali bi2 | |
| Conditional II4 | bȉo bih poticao2 | bȉo bi poticao2 | bȉo bi poticao2 | bíli bismo poticali2 | bíli biste poticali2 | bíli bi poticali2 | |
| Imperative | — | potiči | — | potičimo | potičite | — | |
| Active past participle | poticao m / poticala f / poticalo n | poticali m / poticale f / poticala n | |||||
| Passive past participle | potican m / poticana f / poticano n | poticani m / poticane f / poticana 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.
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Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “poticati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025