ploviti
пловитиplòviti · /plǒʋiti/ · imperfective
VERB
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(of a ship, people) to sail; to navigateBrod 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.
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(of objects, clouds) to float; to driftOblaci 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 | |
|---|---|
| ja | plovim |
| ti | ploviš |
| on/ona/ono | plovi |
| mi | plovimo |
| vi | plovite |
| oni/one/ona | plove |
Past tense: plovio, plovila, plovilo · plovili, plovile
Future: ploviću, plovićeš, ploviće, plovićemo, plovićete, ploviće
Imperative: plovi
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Updated 23 October 2026