plivati

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.

Derived terms

• dòplivati
• ìsplivati
• òtplivati
• prèplivati
• pròplivati
• ùplivati
• zàplivati