poticati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒtit͡sati/
• Hyphenation: po‧ti‧ca‧ti

Verb

pòticati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀тицати)

1. (Croatia, Bosnia, transitive) to encourage, urge, goad, induce

   Synonym: (Serbian) pòdsticati

2. (Serbia, intransitive) to originate, descend

   Synonym: (Croatian, Bosnian) pòtjecati

Conjugation

Conjugation of poticati

Infinitive: poticati		Present verbal adverb: pòtičūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pòticānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		potičem	potičeš	potiče	potičemo	potičete	potiču
Future	Future I	poticat ću1 poticaću	poticat ćeš1 poticaćeš	poticat će1 poticaće	poticat ćemo1 poticaćemo	poticat ćete1 poticaćete	poticat će1 poticaće
	Future II	bȕdēm poticao2	bȕdēš poticao2	bȕdē poticao2	bȕdēmo poticali2	bȕdēte poticali2	bȕdū poticali2
Past	Perfect	poticao sam2	poticao si2	poticao je2	poticali smo2	poticali ste2	poticali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam poticao2	bȉo si poticao2	bȉo je poticao2	bíli smo poticali2	bíli ste poticali2	bíli su poticali2
	Imperfect	poticah	poticaše	poticaše	poticasmo	poticaste	poticahu
Conditional I		poticao bih2	poticao bi2	poticao bi2	poticali bismo2	poticali biste2	poticali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih poticao2	bȉo bi poticao2	bȉo bi poticao2	bíli bismo poticali2	bíli biste poticali2	bíli bi poticali2
Imperative		—	potiči	—	potičimo	potičite	—
Active past participle		poticao m / poticala f / poticalo n			poticali m / poticale f / poticala n
Passive past participle		potican m / poticana f / poticano n			poticani m / poticane f / poticana 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

• potàknuti / pòtaći pf

Further reading

• “poticati” in Hrvatski jezični portal