potrajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

po- +‎ trajati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǒtrajati/
Hyphenation: po‧tra‧ja‧ti

Verb

pòtrajati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀трајати)

(intransitive) to last, continue, take time (especially indeterminably and annoyingly long)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *potrajati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		potrajati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		pòtrajāvši
verbal noun		—

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		potrajem	potraješ	potraje	potrajemo	potrajete	potraju
future	future I	potrajat ću¹ potrajaću	potrajat ćeš¹ potrajaćeš	potrajat će¹ potrajaće	potrajat ćemo¹ potrajaćemo	potrajat ćete¹ potrajaćete	potrajat ćē¹ potrajaće
future	future II	bȕdēm potrajao²	bȕdēš potrajao²	bȕdē potrajao²	bȕdēmo potrajali²	bȕdēte potrajali²	bȕdū potrajali²
past	perfect	potrajao sam²	potrajao si²	potrajao je²	potrajali smo²	potrajali ste²	potrajali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam potrajao²	bȉo si potrajao²	bȉo je potrajao²	bíli smo potrajali²	bíli ste potrajali²	bíli su potrajali²
	aorist	potrajah	potraja	potraja	potrajasmo	potrajaste	potrajaše
conditional	conditional I	potrajao bih²	potrajao bi²	potrajao bi²	potrajali bismo²	potrajali biste²	potrajali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih potrajao²	bȉo bi potrajao²	bȉo bi potrajao²	bíli bismo potrajali²	bíli biste potrajali²	bíli bi potrajali²
imperative		—	potraj	—	potrajmo	potrajte	—
active past participle		potrajao m / potrajala f / potrajalo n			potrajali m / potrajale f / potrajala 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.

Related terms

trȁjati impf