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Verbs and time
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About Verbs and time
Describe present activities, report what happened yesterday, and discuss future actions while keeping person, gender, tense, and aspect distinct.
Match present forms to the subject
Learn common conjugation patterns through reading, writing, working, and speaking. Check the actual stem and stress of useful verbs instead of assuming every infinitive produces an identical pattern.
Use past agreement for activities and locations
Past forms distinguish singular gender and plural subjects. Compare an activity verb with a past form of be, keep formal address consistent, and learn selected irregular stems in meaningful sentences.
Choose a future construction for the intended message
Future practice separates being somewhere from doing an activity. It introduces the compound imperfective future and contrasts it with selected perfective forms without equating every past event with completion.
Sources
- University of Kansas Между нами: Present action sentences
- Cornell Russian grammar: Person endings
- Cornell Russian grammar: Personal pronouns
- Cornell Russian grammar: Nominative
- Cornell Russian grammar: Conjugation classes
- University of Kansas Между нами: Verb conjugation tables
- Cornell Russian grammar: Ty and vy
- University of Kansas Между нами: Unit 1.7 language notes
- University of Kansas Между нами: Second conjugation verbs
- Cornell Russian grammar: Verb stems
- University of Kansas Между нами: Verb stress and English auxiliaries
- Cornell Russian grammar: Verb stress
- University of Kansas Между нами: Unit 1.3 language notes
- University of Kansas Между нами: Unit 1.10 language notes
- University of Kansas Между нами: Unit 1.4 language notes
- Cornell Russian grammar: Aspect
- Cornell Russian grammar: Past, present and future
- Cornell Russian grammar: Past tense
- University of Kansas Между нами: Past formation and animate objects
- Cornell Russian grammar: Irregular past stems
- Cornell Russian grammar: Gender
- University of Kansas Между нами: Past быть, stress and пить
- Cornell Russian grammar: Present copula
- University of Kansas Между нами: Past visits and location
- University of Kansas Между нами: Locations and voicing of prepositions
- Cornell Russian grammar: Parts of the day
- University of Kansas Между нами: At what time and future быть
- University of Kansas Между нами: Future aspect
- University of Kansas Между нами: Clock hours and counted nouns
- Cornell Russian grammar: On a weekday
- Cornell Russian grammar: Current time and at a clock time