pričati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From prȋča.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prǐːt͡ʃati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ča‧ti

Verb

príčati impf (Cyrillic spelling при́чати)

  1. (transitive) to narrate, tell
  2. (intransitive) to talk, converse, tell

Conjugation

Conjugation of pričati
Infinitive: pričati Present verbal adverb: príčajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: príčānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pričam pričaš priča pričamo pričate pričaju
Future Future I pričat ću1
pričaću 		pričat ćeš1
pričaćeš 		pričat će1
pričaće 		pričat ćemo1
pričaćemo 		pričat ćete1
pričaćete 		pričat će1
pričaće
Future II bȕdēm pričao2 bȕdēš pričao2 bȕdē pričao2 bȕdēmo pričali2 bȕdēte pričali2 bȕdū pričali2
Past Perfect pričao sam2 pričao si2 pričao je2 pričali smo2 pričali ste2 pričali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pričao2 bȉo si pričao2 bȉo je pričao2 bíli smo pričali2 bíli ste pričali2 bíli su pričali2
Imperfect pričah pričaše pričaše pričasmo pričaste pričahu
Conditional I pričao bih2 pričao bi2 pričao bi2 pričali bismo2 pričali biste2 pričali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pričao2 bȉo bi pričao2 bȉo bi pričao2 bíli bismo pričali2 bíli biste pričali2 bíli bi pričali2
Imperative — pričaj — pričajmo pričajte —
Active past participle pričao m / pričala f / pričalo n pričali m / pričale f / pričala n
Passive past participle pričan m / pričana f / pričano n pričani m / pričane f / pričana 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

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