primicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pri- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prǐmit͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mi‧ca‧ti

Verb

prìmicati impf (Cyrillic spelling прѝмицати)

  1. (transitive) to move closer
  2. (reflexive) to come closer; approach

Conjugation

Conjugation of primicati
infinitive primicati
present verbal adverb prìmičūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun prìmicānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present primičem primičeš primiče primičemo primičete primiču
future future I primicat ću1
primicaću
primicat ćeš1
primicaćeš
primicat će1
primicaće
primicat ćemo1
primicaćemo
primicat ćete1
primicaćete
primicat ćē1
primicaće
future II bȕdēm primicao2 bȕdēš primicao2 bȕdē primicao2 bȕdēmo primicali2 bȕdēte primicali2 bȕdū primicali2
past perfect primicao sam2 primicao si2 primicao je2 primicali smo2 primicali ste2 primicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam primicao2 bȉo si primicao2 bȉo je primicao2 bíli smo primicali2 bíli ste primicali2 bíli su primicali2
imperfect primicah primicaše primicaše primicasmo primicaste primicahu
conditional conditional I primicao bih2 primicao bi2 primicao bi2 primicali bismo2 primicali biste2 primicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih primicao2 bȉo bi primicao2 bȉo bi primicao2 bíli bismo primicali2 bíli biste primicali2 bíli bi primicali2
imperative primiči primičimo primičite
active past participle primicao m / primicala f / primicalo n primicali m / primicale f / primicala n
passive past participle primican m / primicana f / primicano n primicani m / primicane f / primicana 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

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