pratiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *portiti. Perhaps related to Slovak práca (work, labour), dialectal Russian пра́ца (práca).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prâtiti/
  • Hyphenation: pra‧ti‧ti

Verb

prȁtiti impf (Cyrillic spelling пра̏тити)

  1. (ambitransitive) to follow (to go or come after in physical space)
  2. (transitive) to accompany
  3. (transitive) to shadow, tail, follow
  4. (transitive) to track

Conjugation

Conjugation of pratiti
infinitive pratiti
present verbal adverb prȁtēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun prȁćēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pratim pratiš prati pratimo pratite prate
future future I pratit ću1
pratiću
pratit ćeš1
pratićeš
pratit će1
pratiće
pratit ćemo1
pratićemo
pratit ćete1
pratićete
pratit ćē1
pratiće
future II bȕdēm pratio2 bȕdēš pratio2 bȕdē pratio2 bȕdēmo pratili2 bȕdēte pratili2 bȕdū pratili2
past perfect pratio sam2 pratio si2 pratio je2 pratili smo2 pratili ste2 pratili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pratio2 bȉo si pratio2 bȉo je pratio2 bíli smo pratili2 bíli ste pratili2 bíli su pratili2
imperfect praćah praćaše praćaše praćasmo praćaste praćahu
conditional conditional I pratio bih2 pratio bi2 pratio bi2 pratili bismo2 pratili biste2 pratili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pratio2 bȉo bi pratio2 bȉo bi pratio2 bíli bismo pratili2 bíli biste pratili2 bíli bi pratili2
imperative prati pratimo pratite
active past participle pratio m / pratila f / pratilo n pratili m / pratile f / pratila n
passive past participle praćen m / praćena f / praćeno n praćeni m / praćene f / praćena 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.

Further reading

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