plaćati

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See also: placati and plačati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plaťati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plǎːt͡ɕati/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧ća‧ti

Verb

pláćati impf (Cyrillic spelling пла́ћати)

  1. (transitive) to pay (for)

Conjugation

Conjugation of plaćati
Infinitive: plaćati Present verbal adverb: pláćajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pláćānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present plaćam plaćaš plaća plaćamo plaćate plaćaju
Future Future I plaćat ću1
plaćaću 		plaćat ćeš1
plaćaćeš 		plaćat će1
plaćaće 		plaćat ćemo1
plaćaćemo 		plaćat ćete1
plaćaćete 		plaćat će1
plaćaće
Future II bȕdēm plaćao2 bȕdēš plaćao2 bȕdē plaćao2 bȕdēmo plaćali2 bȕdēte plaćali2 bȕdū plaćali2
Past Perfect plaćao sam2 plaćao si2 plaćao je2 plaćali smo2 plaćali ste2 plaćali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam plaćao2 bȉo si plaćao2 bȉo je plaćao2 bíli smo plaćali2 bíli ste plaćali2 bíli su plaćali2
Imperfect plaćah plaćaše plaćaše plaćasmo plaćaste plaćahu
Conditional I plaćao bih2 plaćao bi2 plaćao bi2 plaćali bismo2 plaćali biste2 plaćali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih plaćao2 bȉo bi plaćao2 bȉo bi plaćao2 bíli bismo plaćali2 bíli biste plaćali2 bíli bi plaćali2
Imperative — plaćaj — plaćajmo plaćajte —
Active past participle plaćao m / plaćala f / plaćalo n plaćali m / plaćale f / plaćala n
Passive past participle plaćan m / plaćana f / plaćano n plaćani m / plaćane f / plaćana 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

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