nicati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nît͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ca‧ti

Verb

nȉcati impf (Cyrillic spelling ни̏цати)

  1. (intransitive) to sprout, shoot up
  2. (intransitive) to spring up, crop up
  3. (intransitive) to appear, emerge, arise

Conjugation

Conjugation of nicati
infinitive nicati
present verbal adverb nȉčūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun nȉcānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present ničem ničeš niče ničemo ničete niču
future future I nicat ću1
nicaću
nicat ćeš1
nicaćeš
nicat će1
nicaće
nicat ćemo1
nicaćemo
nicat ćete1
nicaćete
nicat ćē1
nicaće
future II bȕdēm nicao2 bȕdēš nicao2 bȕdē nicao2 bȕdēmo nicali2 bȕdēte nicali2 bȕdū nicali2
past perfect nicao sam2 nicao si2 nicao je2 nicali smo2 nicali ste2 nicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam nicao2 bȉo si nicao2 bȉo je nicao2 bíli smo nicali2 bíli ste nicali2 bíli su nicali2
imperfect nicah nicaše nicaše nicasmo nicaste nicahu
conditional conditional I nicao bih2 nicao bi2 nicao bi2 nicali bismo2 nicali biste2 nicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih nicao2 bȉo bi nicao2 bȉo bi nicao2 bíli bismo nicali2 bíli biste nicali2 bíli bi nicali2
imperative niči ničimo ničite
active past participle nicao m / nicala f / nicalo n nicali m / nicale f / nicala 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

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