promicati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pro- +‎ micati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prǒmit͡sati/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧mi‧ca‧ti

Verb

pròmicati impf (Cyrillic spelling про̀мицати)

  1. imperfective form of promaknuti

Conjugation

Conjugation of promicati
infinitive promicati
present verbal adverb -ičūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pròmicānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present promičem promičeš promiče promičemo promičete promiču
future future I promicat ću1
promicaću
promicat ćeš1
promicaćeš
promicat će1
promicaće
promicat ćemo1
promicaćemo
promicat ćete1
promicaćete
promicat ćē1
promicaće
future II bȕdēm promicao2 bȕdēš promicao2 bȕdē promicao2 bȕdēmo promicali2 bȕdēte promicali2 bȕdū promicali2
past perfect promicao sam2 promicao si2 promicao je2 promicali smo2 promicali ste2 promicali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam promicao2 bȉo si promicao2 bȉo je promicao2 bíli smo promicali2 bíli ste promicali2 bíli su promicali2
imperfect promicah promicaše promicaše promicasmo promicaste promicahu
conditional conditional I promicao bih2 promicao bi2 promicao bi2 promicali bismo2 promicali biste2 promicali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih promicao2 bȉo bi promicao2 bȉo bi promicao2 bíli bismo promicali2 bíli biste promicali2 bíli bi promicali2
imperative promiči promičimo promičite
active past participle promicao m / promicala f / promicalo n promicali m / promicale f / promicala n
passive past participle promican m / promicana f / promicano n promicani m / promicane f / promicana 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

  • promicati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026