zamicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zǎmit͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧mi‧ca‧ti

Verb

zàmicati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀мицати)

  1. (intransitive) to disappear, vanish, move out of one's sight

Conjugation

Conjugation of zamicati
infinitive zamicati
present verbal adverb zàmičūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun zàmicānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zamičem zamičeš zamiče zamičemo zamičete zamiču
future future I zamicat ću1
zamicaću
zamicat ćeš1
zamicaćeš
zamicat će1
zamicaće
zamicat ćemo1
zamicaćemo
zamicat ćete1
zamicaćete
zamicat ćē1
zamicaće
future II bȕdēm zamicao2 bȕdēš zamicao2 bȕdē zamicao2 bȕdēmo zamicali2 bȕdēte zamicali2 bȕdū zamicali2
past perfect zamicao sam2 zamicao si2 zamicao je2 zamicali smo2 zamicali ste2 zamicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zamicao2 bȉo si zamicao2 bȉo je zamicao2 bíli smo zamicali2 bíli ste zamicali2 bíli su zamicali2
imperfect zamicah zamicaše zamicaše zamicasmo zamicaste zamicahu
conditional conditional I zamicao bih2 zamicao bi2 zamicao bi2 zamicali bismo2 zamicali biste2 zamicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zamicao2 bȉo bi zamicao2 bȉo bi zamicao2 bíli bismo zamicali2 bíli biste zamicali2 bíli bi zamicali2
imperative zamiči zamičimo zamičite
active past participle zamicao m / zamicala f / zamicalo n zamicali m / zamicale f / zamicala n
passive past participle zamican m / zamicana f / zamicano n zamicani m / zamicane f / zamicana 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

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