citamo

Citamo is the present-tense, first-person plural form of the verb čitati (to read) in Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and Montenegrin. It denotes the action of reading by the speakers and is used in ordinary statements about reading activities. In standard orthography the form is written as čitamo, with the diacritic on the letter c (č); the non-diacritic variant citamo can appear in contexts where diacritics are omitted, such as certain digital environments or older texts.

Usage and examples

Citamo is commonly used in everyday speech and writing to express “we read.” Examples include sentences like Mi čitamo knjigu. (We are reading a book / We read a book.) In contexts where diacritics are not used, the same sentence may appear as Mi citamo knjigu.

Related forms

Citamo is part of a regular verb paradigm for čitati. Related present-tense forms include čitaš (you read), čita (he/she reads), čitate (you read, formal or plural), and čitaju (they read). These forms share the same root čit- and are conjugated according to standard South Slavic verb patterns.