plaćati

See also: placati and plačati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plaťati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plǎːt͡ɕati/
• Hyphenation: pla‧ća‧ti

Verb

pláćati impf (Cyrillic spelling пла́ћати)

1. (transitive) to pay (for)

Conjugation

Conjugation of plaćati

Infinitive: plaćati		Present verbal adverb: pláćajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pláćānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		plaćam	plaćaš	plaća	plaćamo	plaćate	plaćaju
Future	Future I	plaćat ću1 plaćaću	plaćat ćeš1 plaćaćeš	plaćat će1 plaćaće	plaćat ćemo1 plaćaćemo	plaćat ćete1 plaćaćete	plaćat će1 plaćaće
	Future II	bȕdēm plaćao2	bȕdēš plaćao2	bȕdē plaćao2	bȕdēmo plaćali2	bȕdēte plaćali2	bȕdū plaćali2
Past	Perfect	plaćao sam2	plaćao si2	plaćao je2	plaćali smo2	plaćali ste2	plaćali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam plaćao2	bȉo si plaćao2	bȉo je plaćao2	bíli smo plaćali2	bíli ste plaćali2	bíli su plaćali2
	Imperfect	plaćah	plaćaše	plaćaše	plaćasmo	plaćaste	plaćahu
Conditional I		plaćao bih2	plaćao bi2	plaćao bi2	plaćali bismo2	plaćali biste2	plaćali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih plaćao2	bȉo bi plaćao2	bȉo bi plaćao2	bíli bismo plaćali2	bíli biste plaćali2	bíli bi plaćali2
Imperative		—	plaćaj	—	plaćajmo	plaćajte	—
Active past participle		plaćao m / plaćala f / plaćalo n			plaćali m / plaćale f / plaćala n
Passive past participle		plaćan m / plaćana f / plaćano n			plaćani m / plaćane f / plaćana 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

• plátiti pf

Further reading

• “plaćati” in Hrvatski jezični portal