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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From за- + тећи.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zǎtet͡ɕi/
- Hyphenation: за‧те‧ћи
Verb
за̀тећи pf (Latin spelling zàteći)
- (transitive) to come across, come upon, happen to find, find (by chance)
- (transitive) to catch in the act, catch red-handed
- (transitive) to catch unprepared/unready/off-guard
- (reflexive) to find oneself somewhere (at the moment something starts happening, or somebody arrives)
- (reflexive, obsolete) to pledge oneself
Conjugation
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.
References
- “затећи”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025