plivati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plyti, from Proto-Indo-European *plew-; compare plòviti, plùtati.
Cognate with Czech plavat impf and Slovene plavati impf.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plîʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pli‧va‧ti

Verb

plȉvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пли̏вати)

  1. (intransitive) to swim (of persons)
  2. (intransitive) to float (of objects)

Conjugation

Conjugation of plivati
Infinitive: plivati Present verbal adverb: plȉvajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: plȉvānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present plivam plivaš pliva plivamo plivate plivaju
Future Future I plivat ću1
plivaću 		plivat ćeš1
plivaćeš 		plivat će1
plivaće 		plivat ćemo1
plivaćemo 		plivat ćete1
plivaćete 		plivat će1
plivaće
Future II bȕdēm plivao2 bȕdēš plivao2 bȕdē plivao2 bȕdēmo plivali2 bȕdēte plivali2 bȕdū plivali2
Past Perfect plivao sam2 plivao si2 plivao je2 plivali smo2 plivali ste2 plivali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam plivao2 bȉo si plivao2 bȉo je plivao2 bíli smo plivali2 bíli ste plivali2 bíli su plivali2
Imperfect plivah pliva pliva plivasmo plivaste plivaše
Conditional I plivao bih2 plivao bi2 plivao bi2 plivali bismo2 plivali biste2 plivali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih plivao2 bȉo bi plivao2 bȉo bi plivao2 bíli bismo plivali2 bíli biste plivali2 bíli bi plivali2
Imperative — plivaj — plivajmo plivajte —
Active past participle plivao m / plivala f / plivalo n plivali m / plivale f / plivala 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.

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