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.
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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 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. |