povesti
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pǒʋesti/
- Hyphenation: po‧ve‧sti
Verb
pòvesti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀вести)
- (transitive) to lead
- (transitive) to initiate, begin
- (intransitive) to take the lead
- (reflexive) to go along with, imitate
Conjugation
Conjugation of povesti
| Infinitive: povesti | Present verbal adverb: — | Past verbal adverb: pòvēvši | Verbal noun: — | ||||
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | povedem | povedeš | povede | povedemo | povedete | povedu | |
| Future | Future I | povest ću1 povešću | povest ćeš1 povešćeš | povest će1 povešće | povest ćemo1 povešćemo | povest ćete1 povešćete | povest će1 povešće |
| Future II | budem poveo2 | budeš poveo2 | bude poveo2 | budemo poveli2 | budete poveli2 | budu poveli2 | |
| Past | Perfect | poveo sam2 | poveo si2 | poveo je2 | poveli smo2 | poveli ste2 | poveli su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bio sam poveo2 | bio si poveo2 | bio je poveo2 | bili smo poveli2 | bili ste poveli2 | bili su poveli2 | |
| Aorist | povedoh | povede | povede | povedosmo | povedoste | povedoše | |
| Conditional I | poveo bih2 | poveo bi2 | poveo bi2 | poveli bismo2 | poveli biste2 | poveli bi2 | |
| Conditional II | bio bih poveo2 | bio bi poveo2 | bio bi poveo2 | bili bismo poveli2 | bili biste poveli2 | bili bi poveli2 | |
| Imperative | — | povedi | — | povedimo | povedite | — | |
| Active past participle | poveo m / povela f / povelo n | poveli m / povele f / povela n | |||||
| Passive past participle | poveden m / povedena f / povedeno n | povedeni m / povedene f / povedena 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. * 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. | |||||||
Related terms
- povòditi impf