umicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From u- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǔmit͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: u‧mi‧ca‧ti

Verb

ùmicati impf (Cyrillic spelling у̀мицати)

  1. (intransitive) to escape, run away, break away

Conjugation

Conjugation of umicati
infinitive umicati
present verbal adverb ùmičūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun ùmicānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present umičem umičeš umiče umičemo umičete umiču
future future I umicat ću1
umicaću
umicat ćeš1
umicaćeš
umicat će1
umicaće
umicat ćemo1
umicaćemo
umicat ćete1
umicaćete
umicat ćē1
umicaće
future II bȕdēm umicao2 bȕdēš umicao2 bȕdē umicao2 bȕdēmo umicali2 bȕdēte umicali2 bȕdū umicali2
past perfect umicao sam2 umicao si2 umicao je2 umicali smo2 umicali ste2 umicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam umicao2 bȉo si umicao2 bȉo je umicao2 bíli smo umicali2 bíli ste umicali2 bíli su umicali2
imperfect umicah umicaše umicaše umicasmo umicaste umicahu
conditional conditional I umicao bih2 umicao bi2 umicao bi2 umicali bismo2 umicali biste2 umicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih umicao2 bȉo bi umicao2 bȉo bi umicao2 bíli bismo umicali2 bíli biste umicali2 bíli bi umicali2
imperative umiči umičimo umičite
active past participle umicao m / umicala f / umicalo n umicali m / umicale f / umicala 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

  • umicati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025