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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 65 Carry, Bring, Drive: Transport Verbs 383 / 600

Proveli smo dva dana 24 u Dubrovniku DL . We spent two days in provesti past-mpl

Dubrovnik.

Provest ću jutro A u vlaku DL . I’ll spend the morning in the train.

This pair is not used to spend money (or other material resources, e.g. paper, cloth,

salt...); for such kind of spending, another pair is used:

trošiti ~ po- («) spend (money, resources)

This is the same difference as French passer vs. dépenser, German verbringen vs.

aufwenden or Spanish pasar vs. gastar.

The second pair, with pro-iz-, means produce, mostly in industrial ways (I’ve used

here the mediopassive, introduced in 64 The Door Opens: Fun with se²):

Ovi laptopi N se proizvode u Kini DL . These laptops are manufactured in China. (lit.

‘are being manufactured’)

The derived pass. adj. (of the perf. verb) is used as the translation of made in:

proizvedeno + (location). Note the stress of pass. adj. – it applies to all pass.

adjectives derived from perf. verbs this family – always on -e-:

izvesti (...) perf. perform → izveden

uvesti (...) perf. introduce → uveden etc.

The verb pairs derived from voziti drive have similar meaning to ones derived from

nositi and voditi, but the emphasis is on driving: a vehicle (including ships and

airplanes!) must be involved:

Ana N je odvezla Gorana A u školu A . Ana drove Goran to school. odvesti past-f

The verb voziti can be used with A (drive something or someone, or se², when the

meaning is mediopassive – we don’t know who’s driving really:

Ana N vozi auto A . Ana is driving the car.

m

Ana N se vozi. Ana is driving (in a car).

Most verbs in the family derived from voziti must have a subject in A or a se²:

Ana N je odvezla Gorana A u školu A . Ana drove Goran to school. odvesti past-f

Ana N se odvezla u školu A . Ana drove to school.

odvesti past-f

Now, the verb pair derived from voziti with pre- has only the simple meaning –

transport:

Trajekti N prevoze aute A . Ferries transport cars.

m

As in two other families, the perf. verb derived with po- means while driving

somewhere, take someone/something with, but it’s less often used than other two

verbs.

With u- and iz-, besides the expected meanings drive into and drive out, the derived

verb pairs have meanings import and export:

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