тражити

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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)

  1. (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
  2. (transitive) to stubbornly plead, demand, call for, request
    тражити правду — to demand justice
    ово тражи брзу реакцију — this calls for a rapid response
  3. (transitive, intransitive) to require
    биља за раст тражи воду — plant requires water for growth
  4. (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
  5. (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
  6. 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

Conjugation of тражити
Infinitive: тражити Present verbal adverb: тра́же̄ћӣ Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: тра́же̄ње
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ја ти он / она / оно ми ви они / оне / она
Present тражим тражиш тражи тражимо тражите траже
Future Future I тражит ћу1
тражићу 		тражит ћеш1
тражићеш 		тражит ће1
тражиће 		тражит ћемо1
тражићемо 		тражит ћете1
тражићете 		тражит ће1
тражиће
Future II бу̏де̄м тражио2 бу̏де̄ш тражио2 бу̏де̄ тражио2 бу̏де̄мо тражили2 бу̏де̄те тражили2 бу̏дӯ тражили2
Past Perfect тражио сам2 тражио си2 тражио је2 тражили смо2 тражили сте2 тражили су2
Pluperfect3 би̏о сам тражио2 би̏о си тражио2 би̏о је тражио2 би́ли смо тражили2 би́ли сте тражили2 би́ли су тражили2
Imperfect тражах тражаше тражаше тражасмо тражасте тражаху
Conditional I тражио бих2 тражио би2 тражио би2 тражили бисмо2 тражили бисте2 тражили би2
Conditional II4 би̏о бих тражио2 би̏о би тражио2 би̏о би тражио2 би́ли бисмо тражили2 би́ли бисте тражили2 би́ли би тражили2
Imperative — тражи — тражимо тражите —
Active past participle тражио m / тражила f / тражило n тражили m / тражиле f / тражила n
Passive past participle тражен m / тражена f / тражено n тражени m / тражене f / тражена 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.

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References

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