kucati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Slavic *čukati (“to knock”), probably also related to *čukъ (“hammer”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kût͡sati/
Hyphenation: ku‧ca‧ti

Verb

kȕcati impf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏цати)

(intransitive) to knock, tap, beat, strike
(Serbia) to type (on a keyboard)
Synonym: tipkati

Conjugation

Conjugation of *kucati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		kucati
present verbal adverb		kȕcajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		kȕcānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		kucam	kucaš	kuca	kucamo	kucate	kucaju
future	future I	kucat ću¹ kucaću	kucat ćeš¹ kucaćeš	kucat će¹ kucaće	kucat ćemo¹ kucaćemo	kucat ćete¹ kucaćete	kucat ćē¹ kucaće
future	future II	bȕdēm kucao²	bȕdēš kucao²	bȕdē kucao²	bȕdēmo kucali²	bȕdēte kucali²	bȕdū kucali²
past	perfect	kucao sam²	kucao si²	kucao je²	kucali smo²	kucali ste²	kucali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam kucao²	bȉo si kucao²	bȉo je kucao²	bíli smo kucali²	bíli ste kucali²	bíli su kucali²
	imperfect	kucah	kucaše	kucaše	kucasmo	kucaste	kucahu
conditional	conditional I	kucao bih²	kucao bi²	kucao bi²	kucali bismo²	kucali biste²	kucali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih kucao²	bȉo bi kucao²	bȉo bi kucao²	bíli bismo kucali²	bíli biste kucali²	bíli bi kucali²
imperative		—	kucaj	—	kucajmo	kucajte	—
active past participle		kucao m / kucala f / kucalo n			kucali m / kucale f / kucala 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.

Related terms

kȕcnuti pf