smicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smît͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: smi‧ca‧ti

Verb

smȉcati impf (Cyrillic spelling сми̏цати)

  1. (transitive) to suddenly remove, take off (hat, mask etc.)
  2. (transitive) to execute (kill by authorities or military)

Conjugation

Conjugation of smicati
infinitive smicati
present verbal adverb smȉčūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun smȉcānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present smičem smičeš smiče smičemo smičete smiču
future future I smicat ću1
smicaću
smicat ćeš1
smicaćeš
smicat će1
smicaće
smicat ćemo1
smicaćemo
smicat ćete1
smicaćete
smicat ćē1
smicaće
future II bȕdēm smicao2 bȕdēš smicao2 bȕdē smicao2 bȕdēmo smicali2 bȕdēte smicali2 bȕdū smicali2
past perfect smicao sam2 smicao si2 smicao je2 smicali smo2 smicali ste2 smicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam smicao2 bȉo si smicao2 bȉo je smicao2 bíli smo smicali2 bíli ste smicali2 bíli su smicali2
imperfect smicah smicaše smicaše smicasmo smicaste smicahu
conditional conditional I smicao bih2 smicao bi2 smicao bi2 smicali bismo2 smicali biste2 smicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih smicao2 bȉo bi smicao2 bȉo bi smicao2 bíli bismo smicali2 bíli biste smicali2 bíli bi smicali2
imperative smiči smičimo smičite
active past participle smicao m / smicala f / smicalo n smicali m / smicale f / smicala n
passive past participle smican m / smicana f / smicano n smicani m / smicane f / smicana 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

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