tražiti
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From trȃg (“trace, footstep”), thus the original meaning being "to follow the traces of".
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]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
- (ambitransitive) 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
[edit]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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (seek, search, look for): ìskati (regional)
- (plead, demand, call for): zahtijévati / zahtévati
- (require): iziskívati
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “tražiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025