provoditi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pro- +‎ voditi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /proʋǒditi/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vo‧di‧ti

Verb

provòditi impf (Cyrillic spelling прово̀дити)

  1. (transitive) to lead, guide, take (somebody by showing the way)
  2. (transitive) to install (electricity, installations etc.), lay/run lines
  3. (transitive) to carry out, implement, execute, put into effect (measures)
    provoditi odlukuto carry out a decision
  4. (transitive, reflexive) to spend (one's spare time)
    provoditi danto spend one's day
    Slobodno vr(ij)eme provodim pišući r(j)ečnik.I spend my free time writing a dictionary.
    Kako si proveo l(j)eto?How was your summer?

Conjugation

Conjugation of provoditi
infinitive provoditi
present verbal adverb pròvodēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pròvođēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present provodim provodiš provodi provodimo provodite provode
future future I provodit ću1
provodiću
provodit ćeš1
provodićeš
provodit će1
provodiće
provodit ćemo1
provodićemo
provodit ćete1
provodićete
provodit ćē1
provodiće
future II bȕdēm provodio2 bȕdēš provodio2 bȕdē provodio2 bȕdēmo provodili2 bȕdēte provodili2 bȕdū provodili2
past perfect provodio sam2 provodio si2 provodio je2 provodili smo2 provodili ste2 provodili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam provodio2 bȉo si provodio2 bȉo je provodio2 bíli smo provodili2 bíli ste provodili2 bíli su provodili2
imperfect provođah provođaše provođaše provođasmo provođaste provođahu
conditional conditional I provodio bih2 provodio bi2 provodio bi2 provodili bismo2 provodili biste2 provodili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih provodio2 bȉo bi provodio2 bȉo bi provodio2 bíli bismo provodili2 bíli biste provodili2 bíli bi provodili2
imperative provodi provodimo provodite
active past participle provodio m / provodila f / provodilo n provodili m / provodile f / provodila n
passive past participle provođen m / provođena f / provođeno n provođeni m / provođene f / provođena 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.

Further reading

  • provoditi”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025