metati

Latin

Participle

mētātī

1. inflection of mētātus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *metati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mětati/
• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧ti

Verb

mètati impf (Cyrillic spelling мѐтати)

1. (ambitransitive) to put, place

Conjugation

Conjugation of metati

infinitive		metati
present verbal adverb		mȅćūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		mètānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		mećem	mećeš	meće	mećemo	mećete	meću
future	future I	metat ću1 metaću	metat ćeš1 metaćeš	metat će1 metaće	metat ćemo1 metaćemo	metat ćete1 metaćete	metat ćē1 metaće
	future II	bȕdēm metao2	bȕdēš metao2	bȕdē metao2	bȕdēmo metali2	bȕdēte metali2	bȕdū metali2
past	perfect	metao sam2	metao si2	metao je2	metali smo2	metali ste2	metali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam metao2	bȉo si metao2	bȉo je metao2	bíli smo metali2	bíli ste metali2	bíli su metali2
	imperfect	metah	metaše	metaše	metasmo	metaste	metahu
conditional	conditional I	metao bih2	metao bi2	metao bi2	metali bismo2	metali biste2	metali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih metao2	bȉo bi metao2	bȉo bi metao2	bíli bismo metali2	bíli biste metali2	bíli bi metali2
imperative		—	meći	—	mećimo	mećite	—
active past participle		metao m / metala f / metalo n			metali m / metale f / metala 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.

Related terms

• mètnuti pf

Further reading

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *metati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛtàːti/

Verb

metáti impf

1. to throw

Conjugation

-Cati -Cjem (AP b)
infinitive	metáti
1st singular	mẹ́čem
infinitive	metáti			metat
supine	métat
verbal noun	metȃnje
	participle			converb
present	metajọ̄č			metȃje
past	metán			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	métał		metȃla		metálo
dual	metála		metáli		metáli
plural	metáli		metále		metála
	present			imperative
1st singular	mẹ́čem			—
2nd singular	mẹ́češ			méči
3rd singular	mẹ́če			—
1st dual	mẹ́čeva			mečȋva
2nd dual	mẹ́četa			mečȋta
3rd dual	mẹ́četa			—
1st plural	mẹ́čemo			mečȋmo
2nd plural	mẹ́čete			mečȋte
3rd plural	mẹ́čejo			—

Derived terms

• izmetáti
• nametáti
• pometáti
• premetáti
• primetáti
• razmetáti

Further reading

• “metati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “metati”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references