ticati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tykati (sę).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tǐːt͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: ti‧ca‧ti

Verb

tícati impf (Cyrillic spelling ти́цати)

  1. (transitive) to touch
  2. (reflexive, genitive) to concern or pertain (to or with oneself)
    To se tebe ne tiče.That does not concern you.
    Pitanje globalnog zatopljenja se tiče svih nas.The issue of global warming concerns all of us.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ticati
infinitive ticati
present verbal adverb tíčȗći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun tícānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present tičem tičeš tiče tičemo tičete tiču
future future I ticat ću1
ticaću
ticat ćeš1
ticaćeš
ticat će1
ticaće
ticat ćemo1
ticaćemo
ticat ćete1
ticaćete
ticat ćē1
ticaće
future II bȕdēm ticao2 bȕdēš ticao2 bȕdē ticao2 bȕdēmo ticali2 bȕdēte ticali2 bȕdū ticali2
past perfect ticao sam2 ticao si2 ticao je2 ticali smo2 ticali ste2 ticali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam ticao2 bȉo si ticao2 bȉo je ticao2 bíli smo ticali2 bíli ste ticali2 bíli su ticali2
imperfect ticah ticaše ticaše ticasmo ticaste ticahu
conditional conditional I ticao bih2 ticao bi2 ticao bi2 ticali bismo2 ticali biste2 ticali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih ticao2 bȉo bi ticao2 bȉo bi ticao2 bíli bismo ticali2 bíli biste ticali2 bíli bi ticali2
imperative tiči tičimo tičite
active past participle ticao m / ticala f / ticalo n ticali m / ticale f / ticala n
passive past participle tican m / ticana f / ticano n ticani m / ticane f / ticana 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.

Further reading

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