trgovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъrgovati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɡǒʋati/
• Hyphenation: tr‧go‧va‧ti

Verb

trgòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling трго̀вати)

1. (intransitive) to trade, deal

Conjugation

Conjugation of trgovati

Infinitive: trgovati		Present verbal adverb: tr̀gujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trgòvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		trgujem	trguješ	trguje	trgujemo	trgujete	trguju
Future	Future I	trgovat ću1 trgovaću	trgovat ćeš1 trgovaćeš	trgovat će1 trgovaće	trgovat ćemo1 trgovaćemo	trgovat ćete1 trgovaćete	trgovat će1 trgovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm trgovao2	bȕdēš trgovao2	bȕdē trgovao2	bȕdēmo trgovali2	bȕdēte trgovali2	bȕdū trgovali2
Past	Perfect	trgovao sam2	trgovao si2	trgovao je2	trgovali smo2	trgovali ste2	trgovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam trgovao2	bȉo si trgovao2	bȉo je trgovao2	bíli smo trgovali2	bíli ste trgovali2	bíli su trgovali2
	Imperfect	trgovah	trgovaše	trgovaše	trgovasmo	trgovaste	trgovahu
Conditional I		trgovao bih2	trgovao bi2	trgovao bi2	trgovali bismo2	trgovali biste2	trgovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih trgovao2	bȉo bi trgovao2	bȉo bi trgovao2	bíli bismo trgovali2	bíli biste trgovali2	bíli bi trgovali2
Imperative		—	trguj	—	trgujmo	trgujte	—
Active past participle		trgovao m / trgovala f / trgovalo n			trgovali m / trgovale f / trgovala 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

• “trgovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024