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 odluku ― to carry out a decision

4. (transitive, reflexive) to spend (one's spare time)

   provoditi dan ― to 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
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
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 će1 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 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.

Related terms

• pròvesti pf

Further reading

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