trajati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trajati (Slovene trajati, Old Czech tráti), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to cross”) (Latin trans, Sanskrit तरति (tarati)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trâjati/
  • Hyphenation: tra‧ja‧ti

Verb

trȁjati impf (Cyrillic spelling тра̏јати)

  1. (intransitive) to last, continue

Conjugation

Conjugation of trajati
Infinitive: trajati Present verbal adverb: trȁjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: trȁjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present trajem traješ traje trajemo trajete traju
Future Future I trajat ću1
trajaću 		trajat ćeš1
trajaćeš 		trajat će1
trajaće 		trajat ćemo1
trajaćemo 		trajat ćete1
trajaćete 		trajat će1
trajaće
Future II bȕdēm trajao2 bȕdēš trajao2 bȕdē trajao2 bȕdēmo trajali2 bȕdēte trajali2 bȕdū trajali2
Past Perfect trajao sam2 trajao si2 trajao je2 trajali smo2 trajali ste2 trajali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam trajao2 bȉo si trajao2 bȉo je trajao2 bíli smo trajali2 bíli ste trajali2 bíli su trajali2
Imperfect trajah trajaše trajaše trajasmo trajaste trajahu
Conditional I trajao bih2 trajao bi2 trajao bi2 trajali bismo2 trajali biste2 trajali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih trajao2 bȉo bi trajao2 bȉo bi trajao2 bíli bismo trajali2 bíli biste trajali2 bíli bi trajali2
Imperative — traj — trajmo trajte —
Active past participle trajao m / trajala f / trajalo n trajali m / trajale f / trajala 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.

Derived terms

References

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

Further reading

  • Josip Jedvaj, editor (1962–1966), “trajati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 18, Zagreb: JAZU, page 519
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