otjecati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǒtjet͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: o‧tje‧ca‧ti

Verb

òtjecati impf (Cyrillic spelling о̀тјецати)

  1. (intransitive, Croatia) to flow off, drain off (of a moving water)

Conjugation

Conjugation of otjecati
Infinitive: otjecati Present verbal adverb: òtječūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: òtjecānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present otječem otječeš otječe otječemo otječete otječu
Future Future I otjecat ću1
otjecaću 		otjecat ćeš1
otjecaćeš 		otjecat će1
otjecaće 		otjecat ćemo1
otjecaćemo 		otjecat ćete1
otjecaćete 		otjecat će1
otjecaće
Future II bȕdēm otjecao2 bȕdēš otjecao2 bȕdē otjecao2 bȕdēmo otjecali2 bȕdēte otjecali2 bȕdū otjecali2
Past Perfect otjecao sam2 otjecao si2 otjecao je2 otjecali smo2 otjecali ste2 otjecali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam otjecao2 bȉo si otjecao2 bȉo je otjecao2 bíli smo otjecali2 bíli ste otjecali2 bíli su otjecali2
Imperfect otjecah otjecaše otjecaše otjecasmo otjecaste otjecahu
Conditional I otjecao bih2 otjecao bi2 otjecao bi2 otjecali bismo2 otjecali biste2 otjecali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih otjecao2 bȉo bi otjecao2 bȉo bi otjecao2 bíli bismo otjecali2 bíli biste otjecali2 bíli bi otjecali2
Imperative — otječi — otječimo otječite —
Active past participle otjecao m / otjecala f / otjecalo n otjecali m / otjecale f / otjecala 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.

Further reading

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