pratiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *portiti. Perhaps related to Slovak práca (“work, labour”), dialectal Russian пра́ца (práca).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prâtiti/
• Hyphenation: pra‧ti‧ti

Verb

prȁtiti impf (Cyrillic spelling пра̏тити)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to follow (to go or come after in physical space)
2. (transitive) to accompany
3. (transitive) to shadow, tail, follow
4. (transitive) to track

Conjugation

Conjugation of pratiti

Infinitive: pratiti		Present verbal adverb: prȁtēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prȁćēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pratim	pratiš	prati	pratimo	pratite	prate
Future	Future I	pratit ću1 pratiću	pratit ćeš1 pratićeš	pratit će1 pratiće	pratit ćemo1 pratićemo	pratit ćete1 pratićete	pratit će1 pratiće
	Future II	bȕdēm pratio2	bȕdēš pratio2	bȕdē pratio2	bȕdēmo pratili2	bȕdēte pratili2	bȕdū pratili2
Past	Perfect	pratio sam2	pratio si2	pratio je2	pratili smo2	pratili ste2	pratili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pratio2	bȉo si pratio2	bȉo je pratio2	bíli smo pratili2	bíli ste pratili2	bíli su pratili2
	Imperfect	praćah	praćaše	praćaše	praćasmo	praćaste	praćahu
Conditional I		pratio bih2	pratio bi2	pratio bi2	pratili bismo2	pratili biste2	pratili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pratio2	bȉo bi pratio2	bȉo bi pratio2	bíli bismo pratili2	bíli biste pratili2	bíli bi pratili2
Imperative		—	prati	—	pratimo	pratite	—
Active past participle		pratio m / pratila f / pratilo n			pratili m / pratile f / pratila n
Passive past participle		praćen m / praćena f / praćeno n			praćeni m / praćene f / praćena 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.

Further reading

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