pogledala

Pogledala is a verb form found in South Slavic languages, notably Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. It is the feminine singular past tense (the past participle form) of the perfective verb pogledati, which means to look at or to take a look. In translation, it corresponds to “she looked (at)” in English.

Form and usage: Pogledala is used with the auxiliary verb biti in the compound past tense, as in Ona je pogledala. The form agrees with the subject in gender and number; the masculine singular is pogledao, the neuter singular is pogledalo, and other gender-number combinations have their own forms (e.g., pogledale for feminine plural). The action is interpreted as completed or occurred at a specific past time. Example: Ona je pogledala kroz prozor. Translation: She looked through the window.

Etymology and related forms: The verb pogledati is built on the verb gledati (to look) with the prefix po-, and the noun pogled meaning “a look” or “a view.” Related forms include pogledam (I look), pogledao (he looked), and pogledala (she looked), with variations across gender and number. Pogledala, as a standalone form, signals a feminine subject in the past tense and is widely understood across standard varieties of the language.

In summary, pogledala is the feminine past tense form of pogledati, used to express that a feminine subject completed the action of looking at something in the past.