kucati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kût͡sati/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ca‧ti

Verb

kȕcati impf (Cyrillic spelling ку̏цати)

1. (intransitive) to knock, tap, beat, strike
2. (Serbia) to type (on a keyboard)

   Synonym: tipkati

Conjugation

Conjugation of kucati

Infinitive: kucati		Present verbal adverb: kȕcajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kȕcānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kucam	kucaš	kuca	kucamo	kucate	kucaju
Future	Future I	kucat ću1 kucaću	kucat ćeš1 kucaćeš	kucat će1 kucaće	kucat ćemo1 kucaćemo	kucat ćete1 kucaćete	kucat će1 kucaće
	Future II	bȕdēm kucao2	bȕdēš kucao2	bȕdē kucao2	bȕdēmo kucali2	bȕdēte kucali2	bȕdū kucali2
Past	Perfect	kucao sam2	kucao si2	kucao je2	kucali smo2	kucali ste2	kucali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kucao2	bȉo si kucao2	bȉo je kucao2	bíli smo kucali2	bíli ste kucali2	bíli su kucali2
	Imperfect	kucah	kucaše	kucaše	kucasmo	kucaste	kucahu
Conditional I		kucao bih2	kucao bi2	kucao bi2	kucali bismo2	kucali biste2	kucali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kucao2	bȉo bi kucao2	bȉo bi kucao2	bíli bismo kucali2	bíli biste kucali2	bíli bi kucali2
Imperative		—	kucaj	—	kucajmo	kucajte	—
Active past participle		kucao m / kucala f / kucalo n			kucali m / kucale f / kucala 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

• kȕcnuti pf

Further reading

• “kucati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024