ručati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /rǔːt͡ʃati/
  • Hyphenation: ru‧ča‧ti

Verb

rúčati impf or pf (Cyrillic spelling ру́чати)

  1. (intransitive) to dine, have dinner/lunch (midday meal)
  2. (transitive) to eat for dinner/lunch (midday meal)

Conjugation
Conjugation of ručati
Infinitive: ručati Present verbal adverb: rúčajūći Past verbal adverb: ručavši Verbal noun: rúčānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present ručam ručaš ruča ručamo ručate ručaju
Future Future I ručat ću1
ručaću		 ručat ćeš1
ručaćeš		 ručat će1
ručaće		 ručat ćemo1
ručaćemo		 ručat ćete1
ručaćete		 ručat će1
ručaće
Future II bȕdēm ručao2 bȕdēš ručao2 bȕdē ručao2 bȕdēmo ručali2 bȕdēte ručali2 bȕdū ručali2
Past Perfect ručao sam2 ručao si2 ručao je2 ručali smo2 ručali ste2 ručali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam ručao2 bȉo si ručao2 bȉo je ručao2 bíli smo ručali2 bíli ste ručali2 bíli su ručali2
Aorist ručah ruča ruča ručasmo ručaste ručaše
Imperfect ručah ručaše ručaše ručasmo ručaste ručahu
Conditional I ručao bih2 ručao bi2 ručao bi2 ručali bismo2 ručali biste2 ručali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih ručao2 bȉo bi ručao2 bȉo bi ručao2 bíli bismo ručali2 bíli biste ručali2 bíli bi ručali2
Imperative — ručaj — ručajmo ručajte —
Active past participle ručao m / ručala f / ručalo n ručali m / ručale f / ručala n
Passive past participle ručan m / ručana f / ručano n ručani m / ručane f / ručana 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 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
  • “ručati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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