Inherited from Proto-Slavic *telťi (“to pound”). Cognate with dialectal Bulgarian тълча, Russian толочь (toločʹ, “grind”), Slovene tolči (“rap”), Slovak tĺcť (“beat, throb”).
tȗći impf (Cyrillic spelling ту̑ћи)
| Infinitive: tući | Present verbal adverb: túkūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: túčēnje | ||||
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| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | tučem | tučeš | tuče | tučemo | tučete | tuku | |
| Future | Future I | tući ću | tući ćeš | tući će | tući ćemo | tući ćete | tući će |
| Future II | bȕdēm tukao2 | bȕdēš tukao2 | bȕdē tukao2 | bȕdēmo tukli2 | bȕdēte tukli2 | bȕdū tukli2 | |
| Past | Perfect | tukao sam2 | tukao si2 | tukao je2 | tukli smo2 | tukli ste2 | tukli su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam tukao2 | bȉo si tukao2 | bȉo je tukao2 | bíli smo tukli2 | bíli ste tukli2 | bíli su tukli2 | |
| Imperfect | tucijah / tučah | tucijaše / tučaše | tucijaše / tučaše | tucijasmo / tučasmo | tucijaste / tučaste | tucijahu / tučahu | |
| Conditional I | tukao bih2 | tukao bi2 | tukao bi2 | tukli bismo2 | tukli biste2 | tukli bi2 | |
| Conditional II4 | bȉo bih tukao2 | bȉo bi tukao2 | bȉo bi tukao2 | bíli bismo tukli2 | bíli biste tukli2 | bíli bi tukli2 | |
| Imperative | — | tuci | — | tucimo | tucite | — | |
| Active past participle | tukao m / tukla f / tuklo n | tukli m / tukle f / tukla n | |||||
| Passive past participle | tučen m / tučena f / tučeno n | tučeni m / tučene f / tučena 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. | |||||||