motriti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *motriti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǒtriti/
  • Hyphenation: mo‧tri‧ti

Verb

mòtriti impf (Cyrillic spelling мо̀трити)

  1. (transitive) to observe, watch

Conjugation

Conjugation of motriti
infinitive motriti
present verbal adverb mòtrēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun mòtrēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present motrim motriš motri motrimo motrite motre
future future I motrit ću1
motriću
motrit ćeš1
motrićeš
motrit će1
motriće
motrit ćemo1
motrićemo
motrit ćete1
motrićete
motrit ćē1
motriće
future II bȕdēm motrio2 bȕdēš motrio2 bȕdē motrio2 bȕdēmo motrili2 bȕdēte motrili2 bȕdū motrili2
past perfect motrio sam2 motrio si2 motrio je2 motrili smo2 motrili ste2 motrili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam motrio2 bȉo si motrio2 bȉo je motrio2 bíli smo motrili2 bíli ste motrili2 bíli su motrili2
imperfect motrah motraše motraše motrasmo motraste motrahu
conditional conditional I motrio bih2 motrio bi2 motrio bi2 motrili bismo2 motrili biste2 motrili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih motrio2 bȉo bi motrio2 bȉo bi motrio2 bíli bismo motrili2 bíli biste motrili2 bíli bi motrili2
imperative motri motrimo motrite
active past participle motrio m / motrila f / motrilo n motrili m / motrile f / motrila n
passive past participle motren m / motrena f / motreno n motreni m / motrene f / motrena 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

Further reading

  • motriti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025