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	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

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