tračati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From trȁč; trač (“gossip”) +‎ -ati (“verb suffix; to do”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /trât͡ʃati/
Hyphenation: tra‧ča‧ti

Verb edit

trȁčati impf (Cyrillic spelling тра̏чати)

(transitive, intransitive) to gossip
tračali smo c(ij)elo posl(ij)epodne ― we've been gossiping the whole afternoon

tebe ni(t)ko ne trača jer nikoga nije briga za tvoj život ― nobody's gossiping about you because nobody cares about your life

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of tračati

Infinitive: tračati		Present verbal adverb: trȁčajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trȁčānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		tračam	tračaš	trača	tračamo	tračate	tračaju
Future	Future I	tračat ću¹ tračaću	tračat ćeš¹ tračaćeš	tračat će¹ tračaće	tračat ćemo¹ tračaćemo	tračat ćete¹ tračaćete	tračat će¹ tračaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm tračao²	bȕdēš tračao²	bȕdē tračao²	bȕdēmo tračali²	bȕdēte tračali²	bȕdū tračali²
Past	Perfect	tračao sam²	tračao si²	tračao je²	tračali smo²	tračali ste²	tračali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam tračao²	bȉo si tračao²	bȉo je tračao²	bíli smo tračali²	bíli ste tračali²	bíli su tračali²
	Imperfect	tračah	tračaše	tračaše	tračasmo	tračaste	tračahu
Conditional I		tračao bih²	tračao bi²	tračao bi²	tračali bismo²	tračali biste²	tračali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih tračao²	bȉo bi tračao²	bȉo bi tračao²	bíli bismo tračali²	bíli biste tračali²	bíli bi tračali²
Imperative		—	tračaj	—	tračajmo	tračajte	—
Active past participle		tračao m / tračala f / tračalo n			tračali m / tračale f / tračala 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.

References edit

“tračati” in Hrvatski jezični portal