primicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pri- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prǐmit͡sati/
• Hyphenation: pri‧mi‧ca‧ti

Verb

prìmicati impf (Cyrillic spelling прѝмицати)

1. (transitive) to move closer
2. (reflexive) to come closer; approach

Conjugation

Conjugation of primicati

Infinitive: primicati		Present verbal adverb: prìmičūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prìmicānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		primičem	primičeš	primiče	primičemo	primičete	primiču
Future	Future I	primicat ću1 primicaću	primicat ćeš1 primicaćeš	primicat će1 primicaće	primicat ćemo1 primicaćemo	primicat ćete1 primicaćete	primicat će1 primicaće
	Future II	bȕdēm primicao2	bȕdēš primicao2	bȕdē primicao2	bȕdēmo primicali2	bȕdēte primicali2	bȕdū primicali2
Past	Perfect	primicao sam2	primicao si2	primicao je2	primicali smo2	primicali ste2	primicali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam primicao2	bȉo si primicao2	bȉo je primicao2	bíli smo primicali2	bíli ste primicali2	bíli su primicali2
	Imperfect	primicah	primicaše	primicaše	primicasmo	primicaste	primicahu
Conditional I		primicao bih2	primicao bi2	primicao bi2	primicali bismo2	primicali biste2	primicali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih primicao2	bȉo bi primicao2	bȉo bi primicao2	bíli bismo primicali2	bíli biste primicali2	bíli bi primicali2
Imperative		—	primiči	—	primičimo	primičite	—
Active past participle		primicao m / primicala f / primicalo n			primicali m / primicale f / primicala n
Passive past participle		primican m / primicana f / primicano n			primicani m / primicane f / primicana 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

• primàknuti pf