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)

  1. (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
  2. (transitive) to ask for, demand, call for, request, plead
    tražiti pravdu — to demand justice
    ovo traži brzu reakciju — this calls for a rapid response
  3. (ambitransitive) to require, need, necessitate
    bilja za rast traži vodu — plant requires water for growth
  4. (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
  5. (reflexive) to find oneself
    još se tražim — I'm still having an identity crisis
  6. 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
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
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 ćē1
tražiće
future II bȕdēm tražio2 bȕdēš tražio2 bȕdē tražio2 bȕdēmo tražili2 bȕdēte tražili2 bȕdū tražili2
past perfect tražio sam2 tražio si2 tražio je2 tražili smo2 tražili ste2 tražili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam tražio2 bȉo si tražio2 bȉo je tražio2 bíli smo tražili2 bíli ste tražili2 bíli su tražili2
imperfect tražah tražaše tražaše tražasmo tražaste tražahu
conditional conditional I tražio bih2 tražio bi2 tražio bi2 tražili bismo2 tražili biste2 tražili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih tražio2 bȉo bi tražio2 bȉo bi tražio2 bíli bismo tražili2 bíli biste tražili2 bíli 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.
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.

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References

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