poticati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pǒtit͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ti‧ca‧ti

Verb

pòticati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀тицати)

  1. (Croatia, Bosnia, transitive) to encourage, urge, goad, induce
    Synonym: (Serbian) pòdsticati
  2. (Serbia, intransitive) to originate, descend
    Synonym: (Croatian, Bosnian) pòtjecati

Conjugation
Conjugation of poticati
Infinitive: poticati Present verbal adverb: pòtičūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pòticānje
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.
  *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.

Further reading
  • “poticati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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