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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From тра̑г (“trace, footstep”), thus the original meaning being "to follow the traces of".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trǎːʒiti/
- Hyphenation: тра‧жи‧ти
Verb
тра́жити impf (Latin spelling trážiti)
- (transitive) to seek, look for, search (something that is lost, unknown, or not present)
- тражити некога — to look for somebody
- тражи се особа за рад у пекари — a person is wanted for work in the bakery
- тражи се — wanted, needed (in ads)
- тражити срећу — to seek happiness
- тражити помоћ — to seek help
- тражити посао — to look for a job
- (transitive) to stubbornly plead, demand, call for, request
- тражити правду — to demand justice
- ово тражи брзу реакцију — this calls for a rapid response
- (ambitransitive) to require
- биља за раст тражи воду — plant requires water for growth
- (transitive) to look up (word in a dictionary or reference work)
- тражити р(иј)еч у р(ј)ечнику — to look up a word in the dictionary
- (reflexive) to have no purpose in life yet, not to know what one wants yet, to have an identity crisis
- још се тражим — I'm still having an identity crisis
- idiomatic and figurative senses
- тражити пуно — to be demanding, ask a lot
- тражити одштету — to claim compensation
- што си тражио то си и добио — you asked for it
Conjugation
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.
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References
- “тражити”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025