• Povedati = to tell • Govoriti = to talk • Reci = to say They're basically the same as the English versions of them. "Govoriti" is used when someone is talking about something for a while. • Govorila sem o svoji prijateljici. - I was talking about my friend. • Slišala sem ga govoriti o včerajšnjem dogodku. - I heard him talking about the yesterday event. "Povedati" seems kind of similar to the "govoriti" verb and I guess it could be interchangeable in SOME situations. In the end it does mean "to tell" which, as I guess you could assume, doesn't mean the exactly same as "to talk". • Soseda mi je povedala nekaj o svoji sestri. - My neighbor told me something about her sister. • Tisto določeno stvar mi je bilo pred celotnim razredom težko povedati. - It was hard telling that one specific thing in front of the entire class. And now "reci" which is basically, again, totally same as "to say" in English. • Rekla sem ji, naj pospravi sobo. - I told her to clean her room. "Povedala sem ji, naj pospravi sobo" would as well be acceptable, but if you said "Govorila sem ji, naj pospravi sobo" (I was telling her to clean her room) that would mean that she was being told to do a certain action for bigger amount of time. • Slišala sem jo reči, da ji ona ni všeč. - I heard her say that she doesn't like her. Using "povedati" would sound pretty unnatural in this case while using "govoriti" would mean that she was telling about how she doesn't like her for a while. I hope this is understandable enough! Otherwise just message me and I will try to explain it to you better :D