sunčati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sȗnce (“the Sun”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sǔnt͡ʃati/
Hyphenation: sun‧ča‧ti

Verb

sùnčati impf (Cyrillic spelling су̀нчати)

(reflexive) to sunbathe, sun (expose to sun)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sunčati

Infinitive: sunčati		Present verbal adverb: sùnčajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sùnčānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sunčam	sunčaš	sunča	sunčamo	sunčate	sunčaju
Future	Future I	sunčat ću¹ sunčaću	sunčat ćeš¹ sunčaćeš	sunčat će¹ sunčaće	sunčat ćemo¹ sunčaćemo	sunčat ćete¹ sunčaćete	sunčat će¹ sunčaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm sunčao²	bȕdēš sunčao²	bȕdē sunčao²	bȕdēmo sunčali²	bȕdēte sunčali²	bȕdū sunčali²
Past	Perfect	sunčao sam²	sunčao si²	sunčao je²	sunčali smo²	sunčali ste²	sunčali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam sunčao²	bȉo si sunčao²	bȉo je sunčao²	bíli smo sunčali²	bíli ste sunčali²	bíli su sunčali²
	Imperfect	sunčah	sunčaše	sunčaše	sunčasmo	sunčaste	sunčahu
Conditional I		sunčao bih²	sunčao bi²	sunčao bi²	sunčali bismo²	sunčali biste²	sunčali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih sunčao²	bȉo bi sunčao²	bȉo bi sunčao²	bíli bismo sunčali²	bíli biste sunčali²	bíli bi sunčali²
Imperative		—	sunčaj	—	sunčajmo	sunčajte	—
Active past participle		sunčao m / sunčala f / sunčalo n			sunčali m / sunčale f / sunčala n
Passive past participle		sunčan m / sunčana f / sunčano n			sunčani m / sunčane f / sunčana 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.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sunčati.

Derived terms

osùnčati pf