vodim

Vodim is a present-tense verb form used in several South Slavic languages, notably Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. It is the first-person singular form of the verb voditi, meaning "to lead" or "to guide." In everyday usage, vodim expresses that the speaker is performing the action of leading, directing, or managing someone or something.

Etymology and form

Voditi originates from common Slavic roots related to leadership and guidance. As a finite verb form, vodim combines with various objects or prepositional phrases to specify what is being led, for example: "Ja vodim tim" (I lead the team) or "Ja vodim projekat" (I lead the project). There are also idiomatic expressions such as "voditi računa o nečemu," meaning to take care or be mindful of something, where the initial form still appears as vodim in first person.

Usage and grammar

Vodilnost (the property of leading) is expressed through different person and number forms of voditi. The second person singular is vodiš (you lead), the third person singular is vodi (he/she leads), and the plural forms are vodimo (we lead), vodite (you lead, plural or formal), and vode (they lead). Past tenses use related forms such as vodio/vodila, depending on gender. Vodim is commonly used with direct objects (vodim tim, vodim projekat) or with idioms (vodim računa).

See also

voditi, vođenje, leadership terms in Serbo-Croatian languages.