laćati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From lȁtiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lât͡ɕati/
  • Hyphenation: la‧ća‧ti

Verb

lȁćati impf (Cyrillic spelling ла̏ћати)

  1. imperfective form of lȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of laćati
infinitive laćati
present verbal adverb lȁćajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun lȁćānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present laćam laćaš laća laćamo laćate laćaju
future future I laćat ću1
laćaću
laćat ćeš1
laćaćeš
laćat će1
laćaće
laćat ćemo1
laćaćemo
laćat ćete1
laćaćete
laćat ćē1
laćaće
future II bȕdēm laćao2 bȕdēš laćao2 bȕdē laćao2 bȕdēmo laćali2 bȕdēte laćali2 bȕdū laćali2
past perfect laćao sam2 laćao si2 laćao je2 laćali smo2 laćali ste2 laćali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam laćao2 bȉo si laćao2 bȉo je laćao2 bíli smo laćali2 bíli ste laćali2 bíli su laćali2
imperfect laćah laćaše laćaše laćasmo laćaste laćahu
conditional conditional I laćao bih2 laćao bi2 laćao bi2 laćali bismo2 laćali biste2 laćali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih laćao2 bȉo bi laćao2 bȉo bi laćao2 bíli bismo laćali2 bíli biste laćali2 bíli bi laćali2
imperative laćaj laćajmo laćajte
active past participle laćao m / laćala f / laćalo n laćali m / laćale f / laćala 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.

References

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