promatrati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /promǎːtrati/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧ma‧tra‧ti

Verb

promátrati impf (Cyrillic spelling прома́трати)

  1. (transitive, chiefly Croatia) to look over, to examine by looking
    promatrati zvijezde(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Usage notes

In Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, synonymous osmátrati is more common.

Conjugation

Conjugation of promatrati
infinitive promatrati
present verbal adverb promátrajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun promátrānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present promatram promatraš promatra promatramo promatrate promatraju
future future I promatrat ću1
promatraću
promatrat ćeš1
promatraćeš
promatrat će1
promatraće
promatrat ćemo1
promatraćemo
promatrat ćete1
promatraćete
promatrat ćē1
promatraće
future II bȕdēm promatrao2 bȕdēš promatrao2 bȕdē promatrao2 bȕdēmo promatrali2 bȕdēte promatrali2 bȕdū promatrali2
past perfect promatrao sam2 promatrao si2 promatrao je2 promatrali smo2 promatrali ste2 promatrali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam promatrao2 bȉo si promatrao2 bȉo je promatrao2 bíli smo promatrali2 bíli ste promatrali2 bíli su promatrali2
imperfect promatrah promatraše promatraše promatrasmo promatraste promatrahu
conditional conditional I promatrao bih2 promatrao bi2 promatrao bi2 promatrali bismo2 promatrali biste2 promatrali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih promatrao2 bȉo bi promatrao2 bȉo bi promatrao2 bíli bismo promatrali2 bíli biste promatrali2 bíli bi promatrali2
imperative promatraj promatrajmo promatrajte
active past participle promatrao m / promatrala f / promatralo n promatrali m / promatrale f / promatrala n
passive past participle promatran m / promatrana f / promatrano n promatrani m / promatrane f / promatrana 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

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