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. (transitive, intransitive) 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
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 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	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 II4		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. 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 have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found mainly 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

• istrážiti
• pretrážiti
• zatrážiti
• potrážiti