laćati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From lȁtiti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

lȁćati impf (Cyrillic spelling ла̏ћати)

imperfective form of lȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of laćati

Infinitive: laćati		Present verbal adverb: lȁćajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: lȁćānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
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 će¹ laćaće
Future	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 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