plavate

Plavate is a grammatical form associated with the Czech verb plavat, which means to swim. In standard Czech orthography, the second-person plural present tense form is plavete, used with the subject vy (you). When diacritics are omitted, the same form is sometimes written as plavate in ASCII texts. For example, Vy plavete v řece means You swim in the river.

Linguistic notes indicate that plavat belongs to a family of Slavic verbs related to swimming or floating. Cognates appear in several Slavic languages with similar meanings, such as Russian plavat’ (плавать) and Polish pływać. The exact spelling and pronunciation of the equivalent forms vary by language and diacritic usage, but the basic semantic core remains “to swim.”

Usage and scope: plavate is a finite verb form used to address a group in the present tense. It is not a noun or a standalone term outside grammatical context. In language-learning materials or dictionaries, the form is typically presented as part of the conjugation of plavat.

In English-language references, plavate is encountered mainly in discussions of Czech grammar or examples illustrating present-tense conjugation. It does not designate a separate concept or entity in Czech beyond its grammatical function.

See also: plavat (the infinitive), Czech verb conjugation, Slavic language cognates of swim.