presecati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

presijécati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

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

Verb

presécati impf (Cyrillic spelling пресе́цати)

(transitive) to cut in two pieces; bisect
(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	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