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
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
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 će1 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 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.

Related terms

• tàknuti pf
• dodírnuti pf
• dodírivati pf
• dírnuti pf
• dirati impf

Further reading

• “ticati” in Hrvatski jezični portal