Gledati

Gledati is a Slovenian verb meaning to look, to watch, or to view. It is transitive and imperfective, used to describe the act of directing one’s gaze at something or observing an activity. The infinitive is gledati; its present-tense forms follow the standard Slovenian pattern for -ati verbs (for example: jaz gledam, ti gledaš, on/ona/ono gleda, mi gledamo, vi gledate, oni gledajo).

In everyday use, gledati appears with direct objects or with prepositional phrases. Examples include Gledam film (I am watching a film), Gledam televizijo (I watch television), and Gledaš skozi okno (You look through the window). The verb can also be used in expressions describing viewpoints, such as gledati na kaj (to regard something in a certain way) or gledati proti nečemu (to look toward something). The imperfective aspect typically denotes repeated, habitual, or ongoing looking, while a perfective variant such as pogledati can indicate a single act of looking.

Etymology and cognates: gledati derives from a common Slavic root and appears in several South Slavic languages with similar meaning, including Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian, where gledati is also used to mean to look or to watch. This shared origin reflects a broad semantic range for looking and viewing across the family of languages.

See also: Slovenian language; Slavic languages.