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Povedať is saying or telling once. Hovoriť covers ongoing speech or speaking a language.
Examples
In a sentence
povedať — say / tell
Poviem to po slovensky.
I'll say it in Slovak.
hovoriť — speak (see hovoriť)
Hovorím po slovensky.
I speak Slovak.
Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Hand-reviewed example sentences.
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