nicati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nîtsati/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ca‧ti

Verb

nȉcati impf (Cyrillic spelling ни̏цати)

1. (intransitive) to sprout, shoot up
2. (intransitive) to spring up, crop up
3. (intransitive) to appear, emerge, arise

Conjugation

Conjugation of nicati

Infinitive: nicati		Present verbal adverb: nȉčūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: nȉcānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ničem	ničeš	niče	ničemo	ničete	niču
Future	Future I	nicat ću1 nicaću	nicat ćeš1 nicaćeš	nicat će1 nicaće	nicat ćemo1 nicaćemo	nicat ćete1 nicaćete	nicat će1 nicaće
	Future II	bȕdēm nicao2	bȕdēš nicao2	bȕdē nicao2	bȕdēmo nicali2	bȕdēte nicali2	bȕdū nicali2
Past	Perfect	nicao sam2	nicao si2	nicao je2	nicali smo2	nicali ste2	nicali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam nicao2	bȉo si nicao2	bȉo je nicao2	bíli smo nicali2	bíli ste nicali2	bíli su nicali2
	Imperfect	nicah	nicaše	nicaše	nicasmo	nicaste	nicahu
Conditional I		nicao bih2	nicao bi2	nicao bi2	nicali bismo2	nicali biste2	nicali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih nicao2	bȉo bi nicao2	bȉo bi nicao2	bíli bismo nicali2	bíli biste nicali2	bíli bi nicali2
Imperative		—	niči	—	ničimo	ničite	—
Active past participle		nicao m / nicala f / nicalo n			nicali m / nicale f / nicala 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

• nȉknuti pf