ploviti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plavati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plǒʋiti/
  • Hyphenation: plo‧vi‧ti

Verb

plòviti impf (Cyrillic spelling пло̀вити)

  1. (intransitive) to sail, navigate (of ship or sailors)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ploviti
Infinitive: ploviti Present verbal adverb: plòvēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: plòvljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present plovim ploviš plovi plovimo plovite plove
Future Future I plovit ću1
ploviću 		plovit ćeš1
plovićeš 		plovit će1
ploviće 		plovit ćemo1
plovićemo 		plovit ćete1
plovićete 		plovit će1
ploviće
Future II bȕdēm plovio2 bȕdēš plovio2 bȕdē plovio2 bȕdēmo plovili2 bȕdēte plovili2 bȕdū plovili2
Past Perfect plovio sam2 plovio si2 plovio je2 plovili smo2 plovili ste2 plovili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam plovio2 bȉo si plovio2 bȉo je plovio2 bíli smo plovili2 bíli ste plovili2 bíli su plovili2
Imperfect plovljah plovljaše plovljaše plovljasmo plovljaste plovljahu
Conditional I plovio bih2 plovio bi2 plovio bi2 plovili bismo2 plovili biste2 plovili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih plovio2 bȉo bi plovio2 bȉo bi plovio2 bíli bismo plovili2 bíli biste plovili2 bíli bi plovili2
Imperative — plovi — plovimo plovite —
Active past participle plovio m / plovila f / plovilo n plovili m / plovile f / plovila 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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