sunčati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sȗnce (“the Sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǔnt͡ʃati/
• Hyphenation: sun‧ča‧ti

Verb

sùnčati impf (Cyrillic spelling су̀нчати)

1. (reflexive) to sunbathe, sun (expose to sun)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sunčati

Infinitive: sunčati		Present verbal adverb: sùnčajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sùnčānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sunčam	sunčaš	sunča	sunčamo	sunčate	sunčaju
Future	Future I	sunčat ću1 sunčaću	sunčat ćeš1 sunčaćeš	sunčat će1 sunčaće	sunčat ćemo1 sunčaćemo	sunčat ćete1 sunčaćete	sunčat će1 sunčaće
	Future II	bȕdēm sunčao2	bȕdēš sunčao2	bȕdē sunčao2	bȕdēmo sunčali2	bȕdēte sunčali2	bȕdū sunčali2
Past	Perfect	sunčao sam2	sunčao si2	sunčao je2	sunčali smo2	sunčali ste2	sunčali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sunčao2	bȉo si sunčao2	bȉo je sunčao2	bíli smo sunčali2	bíli ste sunčali2	bíli su sunčali2
	Imperfect	sunčah	sunčaše	sunčaše	sunčasmo	sunčaste	sunčahu
Conditional I		sunčao bih2	sunčao bi2	sunčao bi2	sunčali bismo2	sunčali biste2	sunčali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sunčao2	bȉo bi sunčao2	bȉo bi sunčao2	bíli bismo sunčali2	bíli biste sunčali2	bíli bi sunčali2
Imperative		—	sunčaj	—	sunčajmo	sunčajte	—
Active past participle		sunčao m / sunčala f / sunčalo n			sunčali m / sunčale f / sunčala n
Passive past participle		sunčan m / sunčana f / sunčano n			sunčani m / sunčane f / sunčana 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sunčati.

Derived terms

• osùnčati pf