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Jan Mikhail Sanchez (Mike)
How do you make basic verbs past tense [in Russian]
how would you make "I have, He has" to something like "I had, He had"
Aug 18, 2008 5:14 AM
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For making past tense in Russian language, we just put the letter "л" at the end of the verb. (But there are some exceptions.)
For example, I have- I had = Я имею-Я имел ( or у меня есть- у меня было, depends on what you want to say)
I swim - I swam = Я плаваю- я плавал
I write - I wrote=Я пишу - Я писал
August 18, 2008
Past Tense- put a l,la,lo (mask., fem., neutr.) at the end of the verb. But attention the last part of the verb must be cut, befor setting l, la or lo. Do you have a grammar?
Uwe
August 21, 2008
When you want to make Present Perfect you should use certain forms also
to run
бегать - прибежать, добежать
I have run - Я прибежал. Я добежал.
to jump
прыгать - запрыгнуть
I have jumped - Я запрыгнул.
to read
читать - прочитать, прочесть
I've read - Я прочитал. Я прочёл. (equal versions)
to swim
плавать, плыть - сплавать, приплыть, доплыть, заплыть
I've swum - я приплыл, я доплыл, я заплыл
I've swum to the island. Я заплыл на остров. Я приплыл на остров. Я доплыл до острова.
I swam to the island - Я сплавал на остров. Я плавал на остров. Я заплыл на остров. Я приплыл на остров. Я доплыл до острова. (In different contexts various versions should be used)
...when I was swimming to the island - ...когда я плыл на остров.
August 21, 2008
I think that russian verbs have their different forms to put some certain sence in a sentence. The first thing that you should do is to choose what form to use.
for example:
плавать - сплавать, поплавать
дарить - подарить
видеть - увидеть
прыгать - прыгнуть
ловить - поймать, словить
работать - поработать
поливать - полить
давать - дать
брать - взять
ходить - пойти
говорить - сказать
рассказывать - рассказать
The verbs in the first column above mean regular action or process, the verbs in the second one mean one-time action.
бегать - бежать
ходить - идти
The verbs in the first column mean regular action, the verbs in the second one mean process.
Past tense examples:
TO JUMP
I jumped - я прыгал, я прыгнул
I was jumping - Я прыгал (process)
Yesterday I jumped at coaching very high - Вчера на тренировке я прыгнул очень высоко. (one-time)
I never jumped before - Я никогде не прыгал раньше. (regular)
I have been jumping till 6 o'clock - Я прыгал до 6 часов. (process)
TO RUN
I ran - Я бегал, Я бежал
I ran in the morning usually - Обычно я бегал утром. Обычно я бегал по утрам. (Either variant is good.)
I ran yestarday - я бегал вчера (regular)
Yestarday I was running slowly - Вчера я бежал медленно. (process)
August 21, 2008
And also verbs in the past have category of gender. Я был - masculine, Я была - feminine, Я было - neuter.
August 18, 2008
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Jan Mikhail Sanchez (Mike)
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