tražiti
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From trȃg (“trace, footstep”), thus the original meaning being "to follow the traces of".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trǎːʒiti/
- Hyphenation: tra‧ži‧ti
Verb
trážiti impf (Cyrillic spelling тра́жити)
- (transitive) to seek, look for, search (something that is lost, unknown, or not present)
- tražiti nekoga — to look for somebody
- traži se osoba za rad u pekari — a person is wanted for work in the bakery
- traži se — wanted, needed (in ads)
- tražiti sreću — to seek happiness
- tražiti pomoć — to seek help
- tražiti posao — to look for a job
- (transitive) to ask for, demand, call for, request, plead
- tražiti pravdu — to demand justice
- ovo traži brzu reakciju — this calls for a rapid response
- (transitive, intransitive) to require, need, necessitate
- bilja za rast traži vodu — plant requires water for growth
- (transitive) to look up (word in a dictionary or reference work)
- tražiti r(ij)eč u r(j)ečniku — to look up a word in the dictionary
- (reflexive) to find oneself
- još se tražim — I'm still having an identity crisis
- idiomatic and figurative senses
- tražiti puno — to be demanding, ask a lot
- tražiti odštetu — to claim compensation
- što si tražio to si i dobio — you asked for it
Conjugation
Conjugation of tražiti
Infinitive: tražiti | Present verbal adverb: trážēćī | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: trážēnje | ||||
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
Present | tražim | tražiš | traži | tražimo | tražite | traže | |
Future | Future I | tražit ću1 tražiću | tražit ćeš1 tražićeš | tražit će1 tražiće | tražit ćemo1 tražićemo | tražit ćete1 tražićete | tražit će1 tražiće |
Future II | budem tražio2 | budeš tražio2 | bude tražio2 | budemo tražili2 | budete tražili2 | budu tražili2 | |
Past | Perfect | tražio sam2 | tražio si2 | tražio je2 | tražili smo2 | tražili ste2 | tražili su2 |
Pluperfect3 | bio sam tražio2 | bio si tražio2 | bio je tražio2 | bili smo tražili2 | bili ste tražili2 | bili su tražili2 | |
Imperfect | tražah | tražaše | tražaše | tražasmo | tražaste | tražahu | |
Conditional I | tražio bih2 | tražio bi2 | tražio bi2 | tražili bismo2 | tražili biste2 | tražili bi2 | |
Conditional II | bio bih tražio2 | bio bi tražio2 | bio bi tražio2 | bili bismo tražili2 | bili biste tražili2 | bili bi tražili2 | |
Imperative | — | traži | — | tražimo | tražite | — | |
Active past participle | tražio m / tražila f / tražilo n | tražili m / tražile f / tražila n | |||||
Passive past participle | tražen m / tražena f / traženo n | traženi m / tražene f / tražena 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. |
Synonyms
- (seek, search, look for): ìskati (regional)
- (plead, demand, call for): zahtijévati / zahtévati
- (require): iziskívati
Derived terms
- istrážiti
- pretrážiti
- zatrážiti
- potrážiti