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Povedať is saying or telling once. Hovoriť covers ongoing speech or speaking a language.
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.
Other
Tom to nemusí povedať Mary ak nechce.
Tom doesn't have to tell Mary if he doesn't want to.
Chystal sa mu to povedať.
He was going to tell him.
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.