odmicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From od- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǒdmit͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: od‧mi‧ca‧ti

Verb

òdmicati impf (Cyrillic spelling о̀дмицати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to move away (relocate to an increased distance)
  2. (intransitive) to go on, progress, pass
  3. (intransitive, with dative) to leave behind

Conjugation

Conjugation of odmicati
infinitive odmicati
present verbal adverb òdmičūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun òdmicānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present odmičem odmičeš odmiče odmičemo odmičete odmiču
future future I odmicat ću1
odmicaću
odmicat ćeš1
odmicaćeš
odmicat će1
odmicaće
odmicat ćemo1
odmicaćemo
odmicat ćete1
odmicaćete
odmicat ćē1
odmicaće
future II bȕdēm odmicao2 bȕdēš odmicao2 bȕdē odmicao2 bȕdēmo odmicali2 bȕdēte odmicali2 bȕdū odmicali2
past perfect odmicao sam2 odmicao si2 odmicao je2 odmicali smo2 odmicali ste2 odmicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam odmicao2 bȉo si odmicao2 bȉo je odmicao2 bíli smo odmicali2 bíli ste odmicali2 bíli su odmicali2
imperfect odmicah odmicaše odmicaše odmicasmo odmicaste odmicahu
conditional conditional I odmicao bih2 odmicao bi2 odmicao bi2 odmicali bismo2 odmicali biste2 odmicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih odmicao2 bȉo bi odmicao2 bȉo bi odmicao2 bíli bismo odmicali2 bíli biste odmicali2 bíli bi odmicali2
imperative odmiči odmičimo odmičite
active past participle odmicao m / odmicala f / odmicalo n odmicali m / odmicale f / odmicala n
passive past participle odmican m / odmicana f / odmicano n odmicani m / odmicane f / odmicana 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

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