promatrati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /promǎːtrati/
• Hyphenation: pro‧ma‧tra‧ti

Verb

promátrati impf (Cyrillic spelling прома́трати)

1. (transitive, chiefly Croatia) to look over, to examine by looking

   promatrati zvijezde

Usage notes

In Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, synonymous osmátrati is more common.

Conjugation

Conjugation of promatrati

Infinitive: promatrati		Present verbal adverb: promátrajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: promátrānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		promatram	promatraš	promatra	promatramo	promatrate	promatraju
Future	Future I	promatrat ću1 promatraću	promatrat ćeš1 promatraćeš	promatrat će1 promatraće	promatrat ćemo1 promatraćemo	promatrat ćete1 promatraćete	promatrat će1 promatraće
	Future II	bȕdēm promatrao2	bȕdēš promatrao2	bȕdē promatrao2	bȕdēmo promatrali2	bȕdēte promatrali2	bȕdū promatrali2
Past	Perfect	promatrao sam2	promatrao si2	promatrao je2	promatrali smo2	promatrali ste2	promatrali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam promatrao2	bȉo si promatrao2	bȉo je promatrao2	bíli smo promatrali2	bíli ste promatrali2	bíli su promatrali2
	Imperfect	promatrah	promatraše	promatraše	promatrasmo	promatraste	promatrahu
Conditional I		promatrao bih2	promatrao bi2	promatrao bi2	promatrali bismo2	promatrali biste2	promatrali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih promatrao2	bȉo bi promatrao2	bȉo bi promatrao2	bíli bismo promatrali2	bíli biste promatrali2	bíli bi promatrali2
Imperative		—	promatraj	—	promatrajmo	promatrajte	—
Active past participle		promatrao m / promatrala f / promatralo n			promatrali m / promatrale f / promatrala n
Passive past participle		promatran m / promatrana f / promatrano n			promatrani m / promatrane f / promatrana 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

• promòtriti pf