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. (ambitransitive) 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
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
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 ćē1 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	bȉo sam tražio2	bȉo si tražio2	bȉo je tražio2	bíli smo tražili2	bíli ste tražili2	bíli su tražili2
	imperfect	tražah	tražaše	tražaše	tražasmo	tražaste	tražahu
conditional	conditional I	tražio bih2	tražio bi2	tražio bi2	tražili bismo2	tražili biste2	tražili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih tražio2	bȉo bi tražio2	bȉo bi tražio2	bíli bismo tražili2	bíli biste tražili2	bíli 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 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

• (seek, search, look for): ìskati (regional)
• (plead, demand, call for): zahtijévati / zahtévati
• (require): iziskívati

Derived terms

• istrážiti
• pretrážiti
• zatrážiti
• potrážiti

References

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