motati

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Latin

Participle

mōtātī

  1. inflection of mōtātus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *motati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǒtati/
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ta‧ti

Verb

mòtati impf (Cyrillic spelling мо̀тати)

  1. (transitive) to wind up, roll up
  2. (transitive) to wrap
  3. (reflexive) to whirl, spin

Conjugation

Conjugation of motati
Infinitive: motati Present verbal adverb: mòtajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: mòtānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present motam motaš mota motamo motate motaju
Future Future I motat ću1
motaću 		motat ćeš1
motaćeš 		motat će1
motaće 		motat ćemo1
motaćemo 		motat ćete1
motaćete 		motat će1
motaće
Future II bȕdēm motao2 bȕdēš motao2 bȕdē motao2 bȕdēmo motali2 bȕdēte motali2 bȕdū motali2
Past Perfect motao sam2 motao si2 motao je2 motali smo2 motali ste2 motali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam motao2 bȉo si motao2 bȉo je motao2 bíli smo motali2 bíli ste motali2 bíli su motali2
Imperfect motah motaše motaše motasmo motaste motahu
Conditional I motao bih2 motao bi2 motao bi2 motali bismo2 motali biste2 motali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih motao2 bȉo bi motao2 bȉo bi motao2 bíli bismo motali2 bíli biste motali2 bíli bi motali2
Imperative — motaj — motajmo motajte —
Active past participle motao m / motala f / motalo n motali m / motale f / motala n
Passive past participle motan m / motana f / motano n motani m / motane f / motana 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.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “motati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • “motati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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