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Kúpiť buys once. Kupovať is shopping / buying as a process.
In a sentence
kúpiť — one purchase
Kúpim knihu.
I'll buy a book.
kupovať — ongoing (see kupovať)
Kupujem knihu.
I'm buying a book.
Other
Tomáš by zmeškal vlak, ak by sa zastavil kúpiť si čokoládu.
Tom would have missed the train if he had stopped to buy a chocolate bar.
Chceš si naozaj kúpiť počítač v tom obchode?
Are you seriously thinking about buying a computer from that store?
Examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).
Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Includes Tatoeba example sentences when present.
Full attribution on References.