trávi

Trávi is a present-tense verb form found in Czech and Slovak. It corresponds to the third-person singular form meaning “he spends” or “she spends,” and it is used with time, money, effort, or other resources. The exact spelling and diacritics differ between the two languages, reflecting their distinct orthographies.

In Czech, the standard present form is tráví, with an accented í. It comes from the verb trávit, which means to spend or to spend time. An example is: On tráví hodně času studiem. (He spends a lot of time studying.) In Slovak, the equivalent form is trávi, coming from tráviť, also meaning to spend. An example is: On trávi veľa času čítaním. (He spends a lot of time reading.)

Usage notes:

- trávi/tráví is often used with nouns referring to time, money, energy, or attention to express ongoing or habitual spending.

- The choice of diacritics indicates the language: tráví is Czech; trávi is Slovak.

- Related verbs include trávíť/trávit (the infinitive forms in Slovak and Czech respectively) and their various conjugations across tenses and persons.

Trávi thus functions as a common, everyday verb form in Czech and Slovak, illustrating how a single stem adapts to different languages through diacritics while retaining a shared meaning related to spending or consuming resources.