izmicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From iz- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǐzmit͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: iz‧mi‧ca‧ti

Verb

ìzmicati impf (Cyrillic spelling ѝзмицати)

  1. (intransitive) to flee, run away
  2. (intransitive, reflexive, with dative) to avoid, escape (an unpleasant situation or person)
  3. (reflexive) to slip by (of an opportunity)

Conjugation

Conjugation of izmicati
infinitive izmicati
present verbal adverb ìzmičūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun ìzmicānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present izmičem izmičeš izmiče izmičemo izmičete izmiču
future future I izmicat ću1
izmicaću
izmicat ćeš1
izmicaćeš
izmicat će1
izmicaće
izmicat ćemo1
izmicaćemo
izmicat ćete1
izmicaćete
izmicat ćē1
izmicaće
future II bȕdēm izmicao2 bȕdēš izmicao2 bȕdē izmicao2 bȕdēmo izmicali2 bȕdēte izmicali2 bȕdū izmicali2
past perfect izmicao sam2 izmicao si2 izmicao je2 izmicali smo2 izmicali ste2 izmicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam izmicao2 bȉo si izmicao2 bȉo je izmicao2 bíli smo izmicali2 bíli ste izmicali2 bíli su izmicali2
imperfect izmicah izmicaše izmicaše izmicasmo izmicaste izmicahu
conditional conditional I izmicao bih2 izmicao bi2 izmicao bi2 izmicali bismo2 izmicali biste2 izmicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih izmicao2 bȉo bi izmicao2 bȉo bi izmicao2 bíli bismo izmicali2 bíli biste izmicali2 bíli bi izmicali2
imperative izmiči izmičimo izmičite
active past participle izmicao m / izmicala f / izmicalo n izmicali m / izmicale f / izmicala n
passive past participle izmican m / izmicana f / izmicano n izmicani m / izmicane f / izmicana 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

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