Konkurirati

Konkurirati is a verb used in several South Slavic languages, principally Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, meaning "to compete" or "to vie" in a contest, market or selection process. It denotes the act of contending with others for a prize, position, contract or advantage and is broadly equivalent to the English verb "to compete."

The word is a borrowing from broader European vocabularies for competition, sharing cognates with terms such as konkurencija (competition) and related to verbs in Romance and Germanic languages that express rivalry. In contemporary usage it appears in commercial, sporting, academic and political contexts, and is commonly used with prepositional complements to indicate the field or object of competition (for example, to compete for a job, contract or title).

Regional and colloquial variants occur, including forms like konkurisati in some dialects. Grammatically, the verb is typically intransitive and used with an object introduced by a preposition (e.g., konkurirati za + accusative or konkurirati u + locative, depending on the language norms). Derived nouns and adjectives (konkurencija, konkurentan) form a semantic family dealing with rivalry and market dynamics.

As a practical term, konkurirati appears in legal and administrative language regarding bidding and tendering as well as in everyday speech about contests and comparative advantage.