skucati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

s- +‎ kucati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skût͡sati/
Hyphenation: sku‧ca‧ti

Verb

skȕcati pf (Cyrillic spelling ску̏цати)

(transitive, colloquial) to scrape up (to gather little by little)

Conjugation

Conjugation of skucati

Infinitive: skucati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: skȕcāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		skucam	skucaš	skuca	skucamo	skucate	skucaju
Future	Future I	skucat ću¹ skucaću	skucat ćeš¹ skucaćeš	skucat će¹ skucaće	skucat ćemo¹ skucaćemo	skucat ćete¹ skucaćete	skucat će¹ skucaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm skucao²	bȕdēš skucao²	bȕdē skucao²	bȕdēmo skucali²	bȕdēte skucali²	bȕdū skucali²
Past	Perfect	skucao sam²	skucao si²	skucao je²	skucali smo²	skucali ste²	skucali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam skucao²	bȉo si skucao²	bȉo je skucao²	bíli smo skucali²	bíli ste skucali²	bíli su skucali²
	Aorist	skucah	skuca	skuca	skucasmo	skucaste	skucaše
Conditional I		skucao bih²	skucao bi²	skucao bi²	skucali bismo²	skucali biste²	skucali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih skucao²	bȉo bi skucao²	bȉo bi skucao²	bíli bismo skucali²	bíli biste skucali²	bíli bi skucali²
Imperative		—	skucaj	—	skucajmo	skucajte	—
Active past participle		skucao m / skucala f / skucalo n			skucali m / skucale f / skucala n
Passive past participle		skucan m / skucana f / skucano n			skucani m / skucane f / skucana 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

skucávati impf

References

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