nastojati

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 16 January 2018

Etymology

From na- +‎ stàjati (“to stand”). Cognate with Russian настоя́ть (nastojátʹ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nǎːstojati/
Hyphenation: na‧sto‧ja‧ti

Verb

nástojati impf (Cyrillic spelling на́стојати)

(intransitive) to strive, try
- 2016, Jakob Nakić; Marko Rogić, “Nezakoniti dokazi u kaznenom postupku (Poseban osvrt na mjere tajnog snimanja telefonskih razgovora i trećega u tim radnjama)”, in Zbornik Pravnog Fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, volume 37, number 1, page 533:
  Suvremeni kazneni postupak nastoji održati ravnotežu između dviju osnovnih, a suprotstavljenih, tendencija – naime, tendencije funkcionalnosti kažnjavanja, s jedne, i zaštite prava građana, s druge strane.
  The criminal prosecution of the day tries to keep the balance between two fundamental, but antithetical tendencies – namely, the tendency of effective punishment, on one hand, and the protection of the rights of the citizen, on the other hand.

Conjugation

Conjugation of nastojati

Infinitive: nastojati		Present verbal adverb: nástojēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: nástojānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		nastojim	nastojiš	nastoji	nastojimo	nastojite	nastoje
Future	Future I	nastojat ću¹ nastojaću	nastojat ćeš¹ nastojaćeš	nastojat će¹ nastojaće	nastojat ćemo¹ nastojaćemo	nastojat ćete¹ nastojaćete	nastojat će¹ nastojaće
Future	Future II	budem nastojao²	budeš nastojao²	bude nastojao²	budemo nastojali²	budete nastojali²	budu nastojali²
Past	Perfect	nastojao sam²	nastojao si²	nastojao je²	nastojali smo²	nastojali ste²	nastojali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam nastojao²	bio si nastojao²	bio je nastojao²	bili smo nastojali²	bili ste nastojali²	bili su nastojali²
	Imperfect	nastojah	nastojaše	nastojaše	nastojasmo	nastojaste	nastojahu
Conditional I		nastojao bih²	nastojao bi²	nastojao bi²	nastojali bismo²	nastojali biste²	nastojali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih nastojao²	bio bi nastojao²	bio bi nastojao²	bili bismo nastojali²	bili biste nastojali²	bili bi nastojali²
Imperative		—	nastoji	—	nastojimo	nastojite	—
Active past participle		nastojao m / nastojala f / nastojalo n			nastojali m / nastojale f / nastojala 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. * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.