presecati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• presijécati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /presěːt͡sati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧se‧ca‧ti

Verb

presécati impf (Cyrillic spelling пресе́цати)

1. (transitive) to cut in two pieces; bisect
2. (intransitive) to take a shortcut

Conjugation

Conjugation of presecati

Infinitive: presecati		Present verbal adverb: presécajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: presécānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		presecam	presecaš	preseca	presecamo	presecate	presecaju
Future	Future I	presecat ću1 presecaću	presecat ćeš1 presecaćeš	presecat će1 presecaće	presecat ćemo1 presecaćemo	presecat ćete1 presecaćete	presecat će1 presecaće
	Future II	bȕdēm presecao2	bȕdēš presecao2	bȕdē presecao2	bȕdēmo presecali2	bȕdēte presecali2	bȕdū presecali2
Past	Perfect	presecao sam2	presecao si2	presecao je2	presecali smo2	presecali ste2	presecali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam presecao2	bȉo si presecao2	bȉo je presecao2	bíli smo presecali2	bíli ste presecali2	bíli su presecali2
	Imperfect	presecah	presecaše	presecaše	presecasmo	presecaste	presecahu
Conditional I		presecao bih2	presecao bi2	presecao bi2	presecali bismo2	presecali biste2	presecali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih presecao2	bȉo bi presecao2	bȉo bi presecao2	bíli bismo presecali2	bíli biste presecali2	bíli bi presecali2
Imperative		—	presecaj	—	presecajmo	presecajte	—
Active past participle		presecao m / presecala f / presecalo n			presecali m / presecale f / presecala n
Passive past participle		presecan m / presecana f / presecano n			presecani m / presecane f / presecana 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

• prèseći pf