trajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trajati (Slovene trajati, Old Czech tráti), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to cross”) (Latin trans, Sanskrit तरति (tarati)).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

trȁjati impf (Cyrillic spelling тра̏јати)

(intransitive) to last, continue

Conjugation

Conjugation of *trajati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		trajati
present verbal adverb		trȁjūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		trȁjānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		trajem	traješ	traje	trajemo	trajete	traju
future	future I	trajat ću¹ trajaću	trajat ćeš¹ trajaćeš	trajat će¹ trajaće	trajat ćemo¹ trajaćemo	trajat ćete¹ trajaćete	trajat ćē¹ trajaće
future	future II	bȕdēm trajao²	bȕdēš trajao²	bȕdē trajao²	bȕdēmo trajali²	bȕdēte trajali²	bȕdū trajali²
past	perfect	trajao sam²	trajao si²	trajao je²	trajali smo²	trajali ste²	trajali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam trajao²	bȉo si trajao²	bȉo je trajao²	bíli smo trajali²	bíli ste trajali²	bíli su trajali²
	imperfect	trajah	trajaše	trajaše	trajasmo	trajaste	trajahu
conditional	conditional I	trajao bih²	trajao bi²	trajao bi²	trajali bismo²	trajali biste²	trajali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih trajao²	bȉo bi trajao²	bȉo bi trajao²	bíli bismo trajali²	bíli biste trajali²	bíli bi trajali²
imperative		—	traj	—	trajmo	trajte	—
active past participle		trajao m / trajala f / trajalo n			trajali m / trajale f / trajala 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.

Derived terms

References

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