pravi

See also: praví and prāvi

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Esperanto prava

Proto-Italic *-jezi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -īre

French -irbor.?

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Latin -īre

Spanish -irbor.?

Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.

Latin -īre

Old Galician-Portuguese -ir

Portuguese -irbor.?

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Latin -ire

Italian -irebor.?

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Latin -iō

Romanian -ibor.?

Esperanto -i

Esperanto pravi

From prava + -i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpravi/

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• Rhymes: -avi
• Syllabification: pra‧vi

Verb

pravi (present pravas, past pravis, future pravos, conditional pravus, volitive pravu)

1. (intransitive) to be right, be correct, have a correct opinion

   Antonym: malpravi

   Vi pravas. ― You are right.

   La kliento ĉiam pravas. ― The customer is always right.

   Ni konkludis, ke ŝi pravis. ― We have concluded that she was correct.

Conjugation

Conjugation of pravi

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		pravas		pravis		pravos
active participle		pravanta	pravantaj	pravinta	pravintaj	pravonta	pravontaj
	acc.	pravantan	pravantajn	pravintan	pravintajn	pravontan	pravontajn
nominal active participle		pravanto	pravantoj	pravinto	pravintoj	pravonto	pravontoj
	acc.	pravanton	pravantojn	pravinton	pravintojn	pravonton	pravontojn
adverbial active participle		pravante		pravinte		pravonte
		infinitive	pravi	imperative	pravu	conditional	pravus

Further reading

• “pravi”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “pravi”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpra.vi/
• Rhymes: -avi
• Hyphenation: prà‧vi

Adjective

pravi m pl

1. masculine plural of pravo

Anagrams

• parvi, priva, vipra

Latin

Adjective

prāvī

1. inflection of prāvus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From prȁv.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prâːʋiː/
• Hyphenation: pra‧vi

Adjective

prȃvī (Cyrillic spelling пра̑вӣ)

1. pure, true, genuine
2. real, actual
3. correct, accurate

Declension

Declension of pravi

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		pravi	prava	pravo
genitive		pravog(a)	prave	pravog(a)
dative		pravom(u/e)	pravoj	pravom(u/e)
accusative	inanimate animate	pravi pravog(a)	pravu	pravo
vocative		pravi	prava	pravo
locative		pravom(e/u)	pravoj	pravom(e/u)
instrumental		pravim	pravom	pravim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		pravi	prave	prava
genitive		pravih	pravih	pravih
dative		pravim(a)	pravim(a)	pravim(a)
accusative		prave	prave	prava
vocative		pravi	prave	prava
locative		pravim(a)	pravim(a)	pravim(a)
instrumental		pravim(a)	pravim(a)	pravim(a)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pravi (Cyrillic spelling прави)

1. inflection of praviti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Slovene

Noun

pravi

1. inflection of pravo:
   1. nominative/accusative dual
   2. instrumental plural