nastojati

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 16 January 2018

Etymology

From na- +‎ stòjati, old form of stàjati (“to stand”), with lengthening of the prefix syllable and subsequent accent shift (na- + stòjati > nastòjati > nástojati) due to the fact that prefixation does not entail perfectivization, cf. póstojati. Cognate with Russian настоя́ть (nastojátʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nǎːstojati/
• Hyphenation: na‧sto‧ja‧ti

Verb

nástojati impf (Cyrillic spelling на́стојати)

1. (intransitive) to strive, try
   • 2016, Jakob Nakić, Marko Rogić, “Nezakoniti dokazi u kaznenom postupku (Poseban osvrt na mjere tajnog snimanja telefonskih razgovora i trećega u tim radnjama)”, in Zbornik Pravnog Fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, volume 37, number 1, page 533:

     Suvremeni kazneni postupak nastoji održati ravnotežu između dviju osnovnih, a suprotstavljenih, tendencija – naime, tendencije funkcionalnosti kažnjavanja, s jedne, i zaštite prava građana, s druge strane.

     The criminal prosecution of the day tries to keep the balance between two fundamental, but antithetical tendencies – namely, the tendency of effective punishment, on the one hand, and the protection of the rights of the citizen, on the other hand.

Conjugation

Conjugation of nastojati

infinitive		nastojati
present verbal adverb		nástojēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		nástojānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		nástojīm	nástojīš	nástojī	nástojīmo	nástojīte	nástojē
future	future I	nástojat ću1 nástojaću	nástojat ćeš1 nástojaćeš	nástojat će1 nástojaće	nástojat ćemo1 nástojaćemo	nástojat ćete1 nástojaćete	nástojat ćē1 nástojaće
	future II	bȕdēm nástojao2	bȕdēš nástojao2	bȕdē nástojao2	bȕdēmo nástojali2	bȕdēte nástojali2	bȕdū nástojali2
past	perfect	nástojao sam2	nástojao si2	nástojao je2	nástojali smo2	nástojali ste2	nástojali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam nástojao2	bȉo si nástojao2	bȉo je nástojao2	bíli smo nástojali2	bíli ste nástojali2	bíli su nástojali2
	imperfect	nástojāh	nástojāše	nástojāše	nástojāsmo	nástojāste	nástojāhu / nástojāhū
conditional	conditional I	nástojao bih2	nástojao bi2	nástojao bi2	nástojali bismo2	nástojali biste2	nástojali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih nástojao2	bȉo bi nástojao2	bȉo bi nástojao2	bíli bismo nástojali2	bíli biste nástojali2	bíli bi nástojali2
imperative		—	nástōj	—	nástōjmo	nástōjte	—
active past participle		nástojao m / nástojala f / nástojalo n			nástojali m / nástojale f / nástojala 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.