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)

1. (intransitive) to last, continue

Conjugation

Conjugation of trajati

Infinitive: trajati		Present verbal adverb: trȁjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trȁjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
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 će1 trajaće
	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 I		trajao bih2	trajao bi2	trajao bi2	trajali bismo2	trajali biste2	trajali bi2
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

• potrȁjati
• istrȁjati

References

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

Further reading

• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1962–1966), “trajati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 18, Zagreb: JAZU, page 519