ploviti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

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	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	bio sam plovio²	bio si plovio²	bio je plovio²	bili smo plovili²	bili ste plovili²	bili 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		bio bih plovio²	bio bi plovio²	bio bi plovio²	bili bismo plovili²	bili biste plovili²	bili 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 have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

doplòviti
isplòviti
oplòviti
otplòviti

preplòviti
uplòviti
vremeplov
zaplòviti
zrakoplov

Related terms

jedriti
kormilariti