tračati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From trȁč; trač (“gossip”) +‎ -ati (“verb suffix; to do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trât͡ʃati/
• Hyphenation: tra‧ča‧ti

Verb

trȁčati impf (Cyrillic spelling тра̏чати)

1. (ambitransitive) to gossip

   tračali smo c(ij)elo posl(ij)epodne ― we've been gossiping the whole afternoon

   tebe ni(t)ko ne trača jer nikoga nije briga za tvoj život ― nobody's gossiping about you because nobody cares about your life

Conjugation

Conjugation of tračati

infinitive		tračati
present verbal adverb		trȁčajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		trȁčānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		tračam	tračaš	trača	tračamo	tračate	tračaju
future	future I	tračat ću1 tračaću	tračat ćeš1 tračaćeš	tračat će1 tračaće	tračat ćemo1 tračaćemo	tračat ćete1 tračaćete	tračat ćе̄1 tračaće
	future II	bȕdēm tračao2	bȕdēš tračao2	bȕdē tračao2	bȕdēmo tračali2	bȕdēte tračali2	bȕdū tračali2
past	perfect	tračao sam2	tračao si2	tračao je2	tračali smo2	tračali ste2	tračali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam tračao2	bȉo si tračao2	bȉo je tračao2	bíli smo tračali2	bíli ste tračali2	bíli su tračali2
	imperfect	tračah	tračaše	tračaše	tračasmo	tračaste	tračahu
conditional	conditional I	tračao bih2	tračao bi2	tračao bi2	tračali bismo2	tračali biste2	tračali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih tračao2	bȉo bi tračao2	bȉo bi tračao2	bíli bismo tračali2	bíli biste tračali2	bíli bi tračali2
imperative		—	tračaj	—	tračajmo	tračajte	—
active past participle		tračao m / tračala f / tračalo n			tračali m / tračale f / tračala 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.

References

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