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ploviti

пловити

plòviti · /plǒʋiti/ · imperfective

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VERB
  1. (of a ship, people) to sail; to navigate
    Brod plovi Dunavom prema Beogradu. — The ship is sailing along the Danube towards Belgrade.
    Leti volimo da plovimo duž obale. — In summer we like to sail along the coast.
  2. (of objects, clouds) to float; to drift
    Oblaci polako plove nebom. — Clouds are slowly drifting across the sky.

The route is usually in the instrumental without a preposition: ploviti morem, rekom. Occasionally used figuratively of the internet (ploviti internetom), but the normal verb is surfovati.

Conjugation, imperfective
Present tense
japlovim
tiploviš
on/ona/onoplovi
miplovimo
viplovite
oni/one/onaplove
Past tense: plovio, plovila, plovilo · plovili, plovile
Future: ploviću, plovićeš, ploviće, plovićemo, plovićete, ploviće
Imperative: plovi
AI Updated 23 October 2026