ploviti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plavati.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

plòviti impf (Cyrillic spelling пло̀вити)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of *ploviti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		ploviti
present verbal adverb		plòvēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		plòvljēnje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
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 ćе̄¹ ploviće
future	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	conditional I	plovio bih²	plovio bi²	plovio bi²	plovili bismo²	plovili biste²	plovili bi²
conditional	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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