povedala

In a sentence

• Včeraj mi je povedala, kako je preživela vikend.

  Yesterday, she told me how she spent the weekend.

  Here, 'povedala' is used as a past tense verb meaning 'told', indicating that the subject (she) communicated particular information.

• Če bi ji povedala resnico, bi morda bila manj razburjena.

  If I had told her the truth, she might have been less upset.

  In this sentence, 'povedala' is used in a conditional clause suggesting a hypothetical situation.

• Ko sem bila majhna, sem vedno poslušala zgodbe, ki mi jih je povedala stara mama.

  When I was little, I always listened to the stories that my grandmother told me.

  Here, 'povedala' again serves as a past tense verb, but as part of a relative clause referring to the grandmother as the subject delivering the stories.